While the groundhog has natural predators like wolves, cougars, coyotes, foxes, bobcats, bears, eagles, and snakes (that will crawl into burrows and eat young groundhogs), their biggest predator is humans and domesticated dogs that hunt them for food and sport.
8 year olds are on school trip to see dead people and John is having trouble because kids suck.
The answer is 3. Rising action
Connotations is the usual answer, but there are a variety of synonyms for a connotation. I'm sure that it is a connotation.