One of the denotative meanings for the word snake in a dictionary is "any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles, having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions." What might be the connotation for the word snake? Speculate how this connotation for the word snake may have come about? Explain.

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Eddie Khan

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5 December, 10:39

One of the denotative meanings for the word snake in a dictionary is "any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles, having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions." What might be the connotation for the word snake? Speculate how this connotation for the word snake may have come about? Explain.

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Monica Shepherd · Answer 1

Treachery, evil, or betrayal. They may be reforming to like in some stories they call snakes liars and a form of evil. Like they say when Adam and Eve was by the Fruit Tree (or what the tree was) the Devil (Lucifer) was to say he transformed into a Snake. Thats why they think of snakes as that ... evil devious creatures.