4.how does the author’s decision to use her own memories as the exposition in “first love” affect the text?

a. it builds suspense because the reader wonders how this experience led to the author’s later attitudes about love and relationships.

b. it illustrates her idea that a person’s first romantic relationship often serves as a pattern that later romantic relationships will also follow.

c. it allows her to relate her state of mind at age 14 and, thereby, lay the foundation for the events and conflict that follows.

d. it provides a personal perspective that keeps the text from becoming too analytical or boring.

i just took the test and the correct answer would be option C.

It allows her to relate her state of mind at age 14 and, thereby, lay the foundation for the events and conflict that follows.

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 am also pretty sure it is c