When a poet wishes to use figurative language, he or she will use words that are
A. both connotative and denotative.
B. ambiguous.
C. only denotative.
D. only connotative.
The correct answer is A. both connotative and denotative.
There will be a lot of words where the denotative meaning should actually be ignored and the connotative observed, but that does not mean that both are not present.
