What is the difference between connotation and denotation? * Denotation is the true meaning of the word and connotation is what it means to the author.
Denotation is meaning of the word with emotions attached and connotation is what the word means to society.
Denotation is the negative meaning of the word and connotation is the positive meaning.
Denotation is the dictionary definition of the word and connotation is what the word means when it’s used in society.

Read the excerpt from act v, scene iii of romeo and juliet. juliet: go, get thee hence, for i will not away. [exit friar laurence.] what’s here? a cup, clos’d in my true love’s hand? poison, i see, hath been his timeless end. o churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop to me after! i will kiss thy lips; haply, some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative. [kisses him.] which tragic flaw of juliet’s character is reflected in this excerpt? a) her optimistic way of seeing the world b) her tendency to act without forethought c) her tendency to act out of vengeance d) her carefree way of living life