Connotations carries emotional or imaginative associations with it.
I believe the correct answer is A. by describing how people attempt to hide their pain by pretending to be happy.
The poet's characters have to put on a mask to deceive others about how they truly feel - in their everyday lives, they have to appear happy and as if nothing is wrong, when in fact they feel miserable. They have to pretend they are something they are not, which is why their mask is constantly on when they are surrounded by other people.
I would think it's B. Threats from neighboring places.
Think of the pluses and minuses of the technologies in the class. Introduction of such technological strides, ideas and inventions to all these fields has brought a gigantic level of positive change in the current generation and thus, has provided them a variety of new and innovative opportunities. In India, technology has become the main source of the foundational and creative developments. It has improved and brought some huge developments in the Indian Economic status worldwide and has also created many new programmes for our new generation to grow in this technical world.
