Connotation is the emotional meaning of the word. It's what the word brings to mind. Words can have negative, neutral or positive charges. That means they can be used to create a negative, neutral or positive feeling.
Read the following passage.
After winning the spelling bee, Bridget became cocky. “I can spell any word in the universe,” she insisted loudly, even in places where it was not required to spell things. Like at the movies with her friends.
Her best friend, annoyed, said, “I bet you can’t spell a word in German.” Bridget did not speak German.
“I probably can,” she insisted, “I mean, how hard can it be, right?”
What is the charge of the word “cocky” in this passage?
A
positive
B
negative
C
neutral
D
extremely positive
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B. negative
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