Just by reading some of this article, what genre is it and what is the purpose of the text?

blank verse is often confused with free verse. free verse avoids traditional poetic forms such as rhyme schemes and conventional metres and can follow any pattern the poet wishes which means that the verses and lines can differ in length as the poet chooses. however blank verse like free verse is also unrhymed but each line in blank verse has roughly the same number of stresses and syllables, usually following the iambic pentameter

to persuade readers which is answer c

the correct answer would b,   to show that she was very influential in the democratic party.