Question

Up most of the side canyons, before dam nation, there were springs, sometimes flowing streams, waterfalls and plunge pools the kind of marvels you can now find only in such small-scale remnants of Glen Canyon as the Escalante area. In the rich flora of these laterals the larger mammals mule deer, coyote, bobcat, ring-tailed cat, gray fox, kit fox, skunk, badger and others found a home. When the river was dam med almost all of these things were lost. Crowded out or drowned and buried under mud which phrase has the most negative

Answer 1

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Which phrase has the most negative connotation?

A. Drowned and buried

B. Rich flora

C. Plunge pools

D. Kind of marvels

Answer:

The phrase that has the most negative connotation is:

A. Drowned and buried

Explanation:

Connotation refers to the idea or the feeling evoked by the use of a word or phrase. Positive connotation makes us feel good. Negative connotation will do the opposite.

Words may have more than one connotation, which will depend on the context. However, it is easy to agree that the words "drowned" and "buried" will most of the time carry a negative feeling with them. They both evoke the idea of death and, consequently, the feeling of sadness and mourning. In the passage we are analyzing here, that is precisely what they do when they describe how dams can destroy nature.