Leopards are big animals, but they move quietly.
I would say that it's best to use D, compare and contrast. In a compare and contrast writing, two subjects are being compared and contrasted. Depending on how you organize your writing, you can talk about one subject first and then the other.
I believe it is prose D because the definition for probe is -written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
The “hook” is the opening sentence that grabs the readers attention.
the answer is most likely the first sentence