Answer:
I'm pretty sure the answer is C. Topical.
Elizabeth tells the court that John never had an affair with Abigail. She does this to try to help him but it actually just wrecks his entire testimony.
The way an author writes (includes punctuation/capitalization, stanza and line length, figurative language, and sound devices)idiom<span>an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words (type of fig. lang)</span>
