Question

"I darkened her eyes with kohl and the years fell away more; She was so pitifully young I could hardly believe she was to be married today."

Identify the word in the excerpt that has a connotative meaning and explain, in at least 150 words, the significance of the word, and whether the meaning holds a positive or a negative emotion.

Answer 1

The connotative word for me is PITIFULLY or pitifully young. This means very young and it refers to the woman in the text.

It would seem that the words used invoked negative emotions because the narrator is saying that the girl is very young to be married. It would seem as though the narrator is questioning the rightness of the bride's decision of getting married at a very young age.