Well I know she won an award for United States Poet Laureate, So could be A.
The correct answer is an interesting inciting incident.
It is something that happens in a story that makes you interested to find out the result of it - you need to know what is going to happen next, which is why you can't stop reading. This is an element of a story that good writers always use to spice things up.
The sentence in which the verb is a linking verb is "His hours are long and busy.' The verb that links is are. The correct answer is D.