Meanings of words

As a response to the many things that we've been learning about advertising and about perspective, as well as how even small words can change an entire statement I've decided to do a short analysis as to how that is so affecting. In books especially as I'm a bookworm and a hopeful author it pays off to be attentive to the little words used in books. Such as when a character is speaking there is often there line of speech and then a close of quotations followed by the word "said". "I know you are, but what am I?" she said.

However, the entire meaning of a sentence can change in an instant if you use a slightly different word to describe how a character or person in an interview or article is saying it. For instance: "Do you have any idea what kind of trouble you could have gotten into?" she ranted at him. Immediately (for me anyways) the word rant changes everything, even if I had just read that one sentence, I could make a deduction that she had been yelling or lecturing to this person for several minutes because the word to describe how they said something was "rant" instead of "said" or "yelled". It instantly gives it more character and more description.

Even as we were discussing in class today, it's amazing what connotations a single word can have. These words are used every day and we can find them everywhere! In newspapers, on the internet, in a book, in a obituary, in a journal, in an email, a letter, or a blog post. We ever have to be careful of what words we use because of the connotations they often bring.