During the rising action of a story the writer describes the many set backs that the main character experiences what emtiom is the wroter most likely trying to create in the resder through the rising action

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

i believe the answer is inference

the answer is fantasy