How can you use vocabulary to address specific situations and develop style and tone?

Imagine if going to work every day meant your life thats the reality that meat packers in this county face with some of the highest rates of injury and death of any profession i myself worked at such a facility for two years and can resport on the unsafe conditions firsthand

What is the best definition of detonation a.) the meaning of the word in a different language b.)the dictionary meaning of the word c.) the additional meaning that comes from the feeling one gets from a word d.) the meaning of irony

"alice wondered a little at this, but she was too much in awe of the queen to disbelieve it".what is the effect of the author's word choice in this sentence?