All of the following are effective ways to provide closure in the conclusion EXCEPT

A) finishing a story from the introduction.
B) answering your opening rhetorical question.
C) introducing a new fact or statistic that is even more startling than the ones you used throughout your speech.
D) reminding the audience of the startling fact or statistic you presented in the introduction.


C

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