Answer: a literal meaning of the word. connotation. an association (emotional or otherwise) which the word evokes. For example, both "woman" and "chick" have the denotation "adult female" in North American society, but "chick" has somewhat negative connotations, while "woman" is neutral.
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that this is the affect of tone, and mood in this passage.
Since misery and depression are both sad/bad kinds of feelings, then we have to find a pair of words that have the same kind of feeling in order to complete this analogy. The correct answer should be melancholy and boredom.
