<span>D.) Bring it back by the scruff of the neck. The truth is that once you have reached the station you will have brought it back about forty times. The plan is to not despair. Continue. Keep it up.</span>
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.
Based on the given poem above, the connotations of the words used by the poet are heaven, infinity and eternity. These connotations create the sense of happiness, life satisfaction as well as fulfillment or pleasure. These connotations affected the meaning of the poem because it is able to convey the sense of what it feels like to experience happiness in that particular moment. Hope this answer helps.
