D is the correct option :)
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<span>The "point of no return" in the play is the crisis.
After crisis begins in a play, you cannot return to the previous state, to the state which was before the crisis began. Denouement refers to the conclusion of a story. Complication is where the problem of a play begins. Exposition is the very beginning of a play.
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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.
