Answer: He used persuasion and blame to control everyone.
Explanation: He persuaded people in Germany to trust him and he blamed Jews for the destruction of Germany during WW1.
The answer happens to obviously be letter C and here is why, a connotation is a choice in words in a form of literature that can give a stronger feeling to the sentence. For example instead of saying scary i could say horifying and that would be a stronger, negative connotation of fear, based on the fact that c is the only negative one, "Crowded and sticky."
After the semifinals, the team had only one thing on its mind -- winning the championship.
Think of the elongated hyphen as connecting two separate statements... In this case, the second statement is what the team wants.