Which sentence demonstrates the connotative meaning of the word “breath”?

to breathe means to take in air.
a breath is a single inhalation.
breath implies life and strength.
a gust of air is called a breath.

The answer is: Breath implies life and strength.

A connotative meaning is usually confused with denotative meaning. The latter one means the literal and direct sense of the word as you could find, for example, on a dictionary. Connotative, on the other hand, depends on a cultural context and personal associations that make its meaning something secondary, implicit and indirect, like in this case, “breath” is associated, contextually, with life.  

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