Correction:
-Reading fiction helps students learn how to empathize
Or…
-Students reading fiction will improve how to be empathic
If you choose the 2nd one give an example how they learned to be empathic, before the book then after :).
The Gothic novel is a genre associated with the mystery and intrigue surrounding the supernatural and the unknown. Characteristics of the Gothic include: death and decay, haunted homes/castles, family curses, madness, powerful love/romance, ghosts, and vampires
Establishing a claim in an argument is most like C. pointing out a problem that must be solved.
So, your claim is some sort of an issue that you want to get to the bottom of. For example, if your argument is - Smoking should be banned in public places - you are posing a question that you have to find an answer to based on your proof and other claims.
