The plot is always the overriding idea in fiction.
It is false that the connotations of a word have little effect on its literal meaning. Connotation are your personal feelings that a certain word evokes when you think about it/read it/write it.
For example, the word home means a house, but its connotation is usually positive - you connect it with love, warmth, etc.
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The answer for this problem would be J. Innocent should stay as “innocent”, there doesn’t need to be a comma after today and the comma is acting just fine in the place it is in.