"This Is an Ounce of Cocaine, and This Is an Ounce

"This is an ounce of cocaine, and this is an ounce of marijuana. Which would you prefer to ingest" is an example of an opening to a speech given by a student in a college speech class. This would be

A) gaining an audience's attention in an appropriate way
B) using a startling appeal appropriately
C) using the vital appeal to gain attention
D) using poor judgment for the attention strategy because the substances are illegal