What is the best description of a claim?

State or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof

1. canadian → ned land  2. resolving action → denouement3. narrator of twenty thousand leagues under the sea → pierre aronnax  4. novel of manners → social class   5. planned action → plot  6. samuel pepys → diary  7. omniscient; first-person, limited → point of view  8. ivanhoe → historical novel  9. robinson crusoe → novel of incident  10. abstract idea → theme of novel