Answer:
Know the story well
Understand the character traits of the people involved.
Use colorful words and expressions to reveal feelings and attitudes.
Pause slightly to emphasize a word or phrase of special effect.
Use pitch and stress to lend variety and meaning to your voice
What are the options?
A good question would be : What was the main idea?
A loaded word is a word that not only informs but also caries some emotion with it, such as condemning, exciting, praising.
In the statement above the loaded word is "crushing" - it makes a qualitative statement about the defeat: it was a very definite defeat.
