D. Nonfiction doesn't depend on a plot.
You can read a science textbook, which is considered non-fiction, and have no story or plot behind any of the words. It can have a plot, but it does not DEPEND on it.
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<span>When I first beheld this apparition—for I could scarcely regard it as less—my wonder and my terror were extreme.”</span>