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.
connotative language is a rhetorical device that author uses to evoke specific kind of emotion or attitude towards the subject matter. * refers to the literal meaning of a word   * refers to the emotional associations of a word   * refers to the emotional attitude of the author towards his subject â¦ . + 2 others found this useful.