3. How does the author use connotation to persuade her audience to have apprehensions about Halloween?
a. The author uses words like rough parties, vandalizing, defacing, and danger to show the destruction and chaos that Halloween can cause.
b. The author uses words like teenagers, adults and children to show that Halloween has become more dangerous now that it’s not just kids involved anymore.
c. The author uses words like, still, same, and yesteryear to show that Halloween needs to be updated.
d. The author uses words like intense, dark, and dangerous, to show that Halloween is a fun holiday that is used to scare people.