The denotative meaning of peculiar is "belonging to one person." The connotative meaning of this word kind of has a negative feeling. In the second sentence,<span> the connotative meaning is slightly more positive than the first statement, although it still seems a bit negative. I think that connotative meanings help establish a meaningful tone in any text because they give </span>of<span> the feeling of if they are negative or positive which in turn helps the readers understand the tone of the overall story. </span>
Answer:
not sure what the question is......
Explanation:
I would go with,
The stories time period
The characters environment
And where the story takes place
Or if it is an autobiography, then you can also look at where the author is from! I hope this helps!
<span> Curie, a two-time Nobel Prize recipient and physics professor at the Sorbonne (a college of the University of Paris), presented this speech at Vassar College in Housekeeping, New York, on May 14, 1921. The speech, preserved in print as no. 2 of Vassar's Ellen S. Richards Monographs series, centers on what Curie called "the somewhat peculiar conditions of the discovery of radium" and her view that "the scientific history of radium is beautiful." The speech is provided online at the Gifts of Speech Web site, by Liz Linton, site director; and electronic resources and serials librarian in Cochran Library, Sweet Briar College, Virginia.</span>
