a connotation is the implying or suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or phrase apart from the literal or main meaning
for exmaple: youthful and childlike are connotations because childlike is negative in a sort of way it is calling someone immature while youthful means someone who is energetic.
True= started in early years of century
When the narrator refer Mr. Brympton as "that kind of gentlemen", she mean that se does not trust Mr.Brympton.
You can find in the excerpt that the author said 'the typhoid has served me well" before the sentence, which mean that she want Mr.Brympton to paid no attention to her
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You could start it with a question like for example: Do You Ever wonder What characteristics make up a good leader
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Instead of merely taking over poetic forms from previous eras, the Romantic poets developed the form known as the conversation poem.