ASAP!! Read this excerpt from Section I of "R. M.S. Titanic":

But the Titanic needed no whistling steamers or shouting crowds to call attention to her superlative qualities. Her bulk dwarfed the ships near her as longshoremen singled up her mooring lines and cast off the turns of heavy rope from the dock bollards. She was not only the largest ship afloat, but was believed to be the safest. Carlisle, her builder, had given her double bottoms and had divided her hull into sixteen watertight compartments, which made her, men thought, unsinkable.

Which answer best identifies the part of the plot this excerpt represents?

Question 1 options:

exposition

falling action

climax

rising action