The ability to remain positive. Simple:3
Explanation:
Mary asked peter if he had been abroad.
or if he had travelled abroad.
Answer:
Connotation
Explanation:
When we talk about the meaning of a word, we can talk about its two aspects: denotation and connotation. Denotative meaning is the literal, basic meaning of the word. You will always encounter it in dictionaries when looking for what the word means. Though, there is another kind of meaning, the one we refer to as the connotative meaning. It includes emotions and associations connected to a certain word and is usually not a part of dictionary definitions.
Connotation can be positive, neutral, and negative. <em>Economical</em> and <em>stingy </em>have similar meanings: <em>careful not to waste money or resources</em>. The difference in connotation is present, as being economical is a positive trait, while stinginess is not, as a stingy person usually isn't simply careful about not unnecessarily spending but is very ungenerous and mean as well.
Shakespeare uses the bones and structure of the myth as a base for the humor of this scene. He presents the mechanicals (Bottom and Quince, etc) as bad actors who don't know their parts very well, and who also have to improvise to create different elements of the myth. The wall and the moon, for instance, are played by actors rather than just being the inanimate objects that they are in the myth. The story is the same, the plot follows the same lines, but Shakespeare uses the inefficiency and inadequacy of the actors to create more of a ridiculous and humorous tone.