Denotation <span>refers to the dictionary meaning whereas </span><span>connotation refers to the association or emotional meaning</span>.
Figurative is incorrect - it uses words or expressions which differ from their literal meaning.
Emotional is not a term that is used and therefore doesn't make sense.
Is that a poem?
If it is the one about the fire and the boys. Then the speaker doesn’t like his father in the beginning because he isn’t able to play with his friends. At the end he is grateful because the boys got in trouble and he wasn’t involved.
White Fang came in until he touched Gray Beaver's knee
At the sound, Kiche leaped snarling to the end of her stick, and there raged terribly because she could not come to his aid. But Gray Beaver laughed loudly
Both nose and tongue had been scorched by the live thing, sun-colored, that had grown up under Gray Beaver's hands
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