I suppose it's D and also B, with the addition that transcendentalists believed in God as existing in the inner self from where knowledge comes. Romanticism seek for knowledge outside the self, looking up the Universe.
Persuasion is defined as the act of trying to convince someone of something, or the means of convincing someone to do something. When someone lists all the reasons why you should do something, this is an example of persuasion.
Lost a fight but won the war it don’t matter who loses it’s about who wins