Positive and Negative Connotations. ... For example, the words childish, childlike and youthful have the same denotative but different connotative meanings. Childish and childlike have a negative connotation as they refer to immature behavior of a person. Whereas, youthful implies that a person is lively and energetic.
You need to write the main idea of each paragraph of the story and if all the mean ideas are about the same topic then you got the main or central idea of the story.
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verbal irony is your answer.