It is false that the connotations of a word have little effect on its literal meaning. Connotation are your personal feelings that a certain word evokes when you think about it/read it/write it.
For example, the word home means a house, but its connotation is usually positive - you connect it with love, warmth, etc.
This is based on 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. During the time in Africa when English ships had unloaded iron products and silver, they loaded gold and African slaves next and after, they went to the colonies next specifically to the West Indies.
<span> The mood is the atmosphere, or total feeling, within a literary work</span>