I feel that it would be claim, evidence.
The
sentence that carries the strongest connotative associations is letter C: The
milk had gotten old.
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Connotative
meanings are meanings using different figures of speech or symbolism that the
person still needs to think it over before knowing the actual meaning of the
word, sentence or story. Meanwhile literal meanings which are meanings explicitly
given to the readers or the person being told to. In this type of meaning, the
person doesn’t need to think the words too much or ponder on the meaning
because they could easily understand what the other person or the author
implies.</span>
Answer : The sentences from the excerpt that seems to foreshadow Dexter’s future obsession with “possessing” Judy Jones is -
"He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. Often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges."
Where it is clearly seen that he wants all the best things that was available without the answers of why he wanted them. He always wanted best things or him.