The best and the most correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the fourth choice. The passage that best supports the conclusion is "So when she retreated with her laptop to her room and refused to leave, it created a wave of discontent at the school." I hope my answer has come to your help. God bless and have a nice day ahead!
1- The stress syllables are used to highlight the important words and concepts as in <em>To </em><em>speak</em><em> of </em><em>that </em><em>which </em><em>gives</em><em> thee </em><em>all </em><em>thy </em><em>might</em><em>? </em>(bold-faced parts are the stress syllables).
2- The (mostly) regular rhythm does highlight the overall emotional weight on the poem, just try it by reading it out loud as the stress syllables are easy to identify.
There is no evidence of sarcasm nor anger throughout the poem.
The language system is semantics. "Coke" v.s "Sprite." are two different words, so we are focusing on a word. When Anna paused, she was confused because to Melinda, A Coke means a Sprite in her vocabulary. She wanted to confirm the same meaning. Semantics involves a changing meaning depending on the person. She is visiting from Alabama, so the meanings may have chosen just like dialects. Thus, it cannot be phonology/morphology, syntax, or pragmatics.
