Salem had been established hardly forty years before ... No one can really know what their lives were like. They had no novelists and would not have permitted anyone to read a novel if one were handy. Their creed forbade anything resembling a theater or "vain enjoyment." Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953
This passage is an example of which element of plot?
A. Inciting incident
B. Exposition
C. Climax
D. Rising action