Which of the following best defines the term "total meaning"?
a.
the process of evaluating something and rendering a judgment
b.
a message that is not partial, misinterpreted, or filtered; the entire message
c.
a review of someone's work, with comments on its good and bad qualities
d.
none of the above.

b. a message that is not partial, misinterpreted, or filtered; the entire message.

Explanation: The denotation of a word is the literal meaning, the definition we can find in a dictionary (it is the contrary of the connotation, which is the meaning given by the context of the word). In this case, from the given options, the one that best defines the term "total meaning" is "a message that is not partial, misinterpreted, or filtered; the entire message" we can know this because the denotation of the word "total" is complete or absolut.

answer: "the beating heart symbolizes the narrator's conscience, or his sense of guilt and wrongdoing" so its b

explanation:

"to look at him, or hear him describe it, he had no guilt. however, poe decided to symbolize this man's subconscious guilt through the heartbeat."

i'm on the same lesson : / i really don't want to do it..