Onnotation and Denotation in Literature Directions: Select the correct text in the passage.
Which word with the meaning famished has the most negative connotation?
adapted from Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out
for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at mealtimes. Of this festiv
porringer, and no more—except on occasions of great public rejoicing, when he had two ounce
The bowls never wanted washing. The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone
with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed
Oliver Twist and his starving companions suffered the tortures for three months: at last they got:
boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing, hinted darkly to his com