In the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and twelve, at the village of Christchurch, the members of our
congregation were first visited by the spirits.
Which statement best explains the relationship between the author's choice
to begin the story this way and the effect it has on the reader?
O A. The tone of the language leads the reader to understand that the
story will be relayed by a figure of authority.
B. The inclusion of a specific location leads the reader to suspect
that the story will be a social critique.
O C. The inclusion of a supernatural element leads the reader to
recognize this story as being concerned with spiritual matters.
D. Beginning the story with something that happened in the past
leads the reader to assume that he or she will be familiar with the
events to come.

you didn't list the options but im guessing it's resolving contradictions

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.

i believe the correct answer is a