Connotation

Connotation: the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes

Due to the modern-day cliche "the birds and the bees," I, as a reader of Hurston's passage about Janie's romantic awakening, experience Hurston's images of dancing bees uniquely, due to the connotation the word carries for me.

"Connotation." Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 6 Jan. 2015