During the history of Islam after the Rashidun period, many Muslim states, almost all of them hereditary monarchies, have claimed to be caliphates. Even though caliphs were thought to go back to Muhammad, they were not thought of as having the same prophetic power as he did.
Connotation refers to the wide array of positive and negative associations that most words naturally carry with them, whereas denotation is the precise, literal definition of a word that might be found in a dictionary. Cars of the 1960âs Thunderbird, Falcon, Charger, Comet, Mustang, Barracuda.
SYMBOLISM is the applied use of symbols (objects, images or other concrete representations of ideas or concepts). CONNOTATION is the applied meaning to a word that goes beyond the literal dictionary definition. DENOTATION is the dictionary definition of words. IMAGERY involves using language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses.