How does the following sentence from paragraph 11 use characteristics and structural elements of informational texts? There is an individual grit and sense of self-determination common to almost all Texas music and literature, in part, because that frontier spirit first lived by Native Americans and continued by settlers, oil-boom roughnecks, and 20th-century Texans has stayed with us in the 21st-century.
A. It uses commentary to describe the broad range of ideas and cultures that shaped Texas literature over time.
B. It explicitly restates the thesis in the conclusion.
C. It states the thesis in the introduction.
D. It uses summaries and gives examples from an epic historical novel about of Texas to support the thesis.