Charles Dickens uses a really special way to describe every little thing in his books. He uses connotation to give the reader an extra emotion of what is going on. That is a very good way to get the reader's attention, because it gives you an image of the scene. Dickens uses expressions like "killing air", as an example of connotation, to outline the lack of

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