The Answer is A. Connotation is the emotion or idea that comes to you when you are reading a specific word or phrase.
Fitzgerald's message about the American Dream is that it is all disillusionment, meaning fake or not real. In his novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby throws disillusionment all over the place. He seems like he has friends but when his time comes to have a funeral only one person calls and the person calling just wants his clothing back from Gatsby.
The answer is C, because a participle is a word form from a verb, for example: going, been, being, gone etc. and describing like farming man, things like that, also is going to.<span />
Id have to say d I hope that helps if not sorry