The correct answer is C. The essay I wrote is pure garbage, but I don't know how to fix it.
Explanation:
The connotation of a word or connotative meaning refers to the association in terms of thoughts, emotions, and feelings a word has. This type of meaning differs from the denotative meaning of words or the meaning found in dictionaries that is a "universal" meaning. In the case of the word "garbage", the literal meaning of this word is any material that has been discarded or is a waste, while its connotative meaning refers to the quality of being inferior.
Considering this, the sentence that uses the connotation rather than the denotation of this word is "The essay I wrote is pure garbage, but I don't know how to fix it.", because in this sentence the word "garbage" does not refer to a discarded material (denotative meaning), but to an association of the word that is something that is useless or that is inferior (connotation).
