THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (D).CHOICE (A), ARGUMENT, AND CHOICE(E), PER...

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The correct answer is (D).

Choice (A), argument, and choice

(E), persuasion, are easily eliminated. No premises are asserted

and no conclusions are drawn, nor is the reader being persuaded

to do anything. Choice (B), exposition, is incorrect, although

you might find it tempting for a moment, because expositions

tell or explain the what, why, and how of things. Choice (C),

description, is easily ruled out because the author’s purpose is

not to describe something real or imagined, although there are a

number of vivid descriptions in the passage. This selection is a

narrative, choice (D), in that it tells the story of how the author

came to write her famous work,

Frankenstein.

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