When a writer uses words according to their dictionary definition, he or she is using answer

denotative

Explanation:

This is assuming that you meant that the writer is using words according to the dictionary and not based on their personal feelings or emotions (aka their personal definition).

his humanity shines from every page as he bears witness to the tragedy which befell the jewish race at the hands of the nazis. wiesel was a romanian-born jew whose home town of sighet was occupied by the hungarians for most of the second world war. in may 1944, all the jews in the area were forced into cattle wagons and transported to auschwitz.

this isnt an english question.