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Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

  1. For feminists, the question of how we read is inextricably linked with the question of what we read.
  2. Elaine Showalter's critique of the literary curriculum is exemplary of this work.
  3. Androcentric literature structures the reading experience differently depending on the gender of the reader.
  4. The documentation of this realization was one of the earliest tasks undertaken by feminist critics.
  5. More specifically, the feminist inquiry into the activity of reading begins with the realization that the literary canon is androcentric, and that this has a profoundly damaging effect on women readers.

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Solution

✅ Correct Answer: 3

From passage: "More specifically, the feminist inquiry into the activity of reading begins with the realization that the literary canon is androcentric" and "The documentation of this realization was one of the earliest tasks undertaken by feminist critics."

Thought Process:

Look for connecting words and references -> "More specifically" in sentence 5 connects to sentence 1 -> "this realization" in sentence 4 points back to sentence 5 -> sentence 2 gives an example with "this work" -> sentence 3 talks about similar topics but doesn't connect to the flow


How to eliminate:

  • Find the chain of connection between sentences
  • Look for reference words like "this," "more specifically," "this work"
  • One sentence will feel disconnected from the main flow

The logical flow is: 1 → 5 → 4 → 2

Sentence 1 introduces feminist reading concerns → Sentence 5 uses "More specifically" to elaborate → Sentence 4's "this realization" refers back to sentence 5's point about androcentric canon → Sentence 2 gives Showalter as an example of "this work"


🟢 Sentence 3 is the odd one out → disconnected flow → While it talks about androcentric literature affecting readers differently by gender, it doesn't connect to the specific chain of ideas about feminist criticism documenting the problems with literary canon. It's a related but separate point that breaks the logical sequence.

The other four sentences form a complete argument: feminist reading concerns → specific realization about androcentric canon → early feminist critics documented this → Showalter as example.

Answer: 3

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