Which sentence describes the rising action of the story?
O
A. At the end of the novel, the narrator explains how he lived to tell
the tale.
B. Captain Ahab soon reveals the purpose of this voyage, which is to
hunt down a white whale that injured him
C. The conflict has been resolved and order restored - at the
expense of the Pequod, its crew, and its captain.
O
D. At the beginning of the story, we meet the narrator, who tells the
tale of Captain Ahab and the crew of a ship, the Pequod

an old person

explanation:

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.