Question

Read the excerpt from The Old Man and the Sea.

The sea was very dark and the light made prisms in the water. The myriad flecks of the plankton were annulled now by the high sun and it was only the great deep prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now with his lines going straight down into the water that was a mile deep.

What is the connotative meaning of the phrase “annulled now” as it is used in the excerpt?

It means that the sun has killed off the plankton.

It indicates that the red flecks of the plankton were no longer visible.

It implies that Santiago can’t see because of the prisms the sun makes.

It suggests that the plankton has moved elsewhere.

Answer 1

From the given excerpt, the connotative meaning of the phrase 'annulled now' is used to indicate the non-visibility of the flecks of plankton.

Option B is the correct answer.

What is meant by connotative meaning?

Connotative meaning is used to refer to or indicate something through a word.

In the excerpt, the phrase 'annulled now' is indicated to show that the flecks or the fragments of the plankton could no longer be seen by the old man due to high sun rays and he was able to see only the images of deep prisms in the clear water.

Therefore, the flecks of plankton were no longer seen by the old man is the connotative meaning that was suggested by the phrase 'annulled now'.

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