I believe it would be a verb phrase because it is stating the action
I think its A although none of your stuff has italics...
The correct answer is option A. "the beginning". In literature, a falling action is defined as the events that happens right after the climax has ended. In the beginning of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe the narrator addresses the audience to explain why he is gonna lose is life tomorrow, this implies that the story starts when the climax has ended and the narrator is gonna explained what happened.
