including facts in an essay establishes fallacy, sets the time period, represents status, or gains credibility?

gains credibility

Explanation:

When an essay includes events that actually happened, it makes the scenario being described seem more likely to be true thereby giving it an extra measure of credibility because the stories can be related to actual events.

If one just makes up facts that cannot be related to the real world however, the scenario becomes more fictitious in the eyes of a reader and might even be declared a fallacious.

jefferson introduced the idea that one does not change a government for "light" causes because he wanted to emphasize the seriousness of colonists' reasons for declaring independence.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.