Connotation

Connotation: The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning.



"True! uneasy, very, very strangely uneasy I had been and am; but why will you say that I am lacking stability? The ailment had honed my senses, not consumed, not lessened their strength. Above all was the sense of hearing really good. I heard everything in the air and in the ground. I heard many things in the underworld. How then am I lacking stability? Listen and observe how wonderfully, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story."
(The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe)


In this excert Poe gives some words a different meaning of what they actually mean.  For example "unseasy" could be another word for worried. "Stability" in this case could mean sence. "Air" is substitued for the word sky, or for Heaven. And "ground" for Earth. THis shows some of the examples of connotations.