PT105.S4.Q10 Please explain why E is incorrect and why D is the correct answer choice

AL-33770

Was stuck between D and E, but decided to go with answer choice E.

Someone please explain why E is wrong

­In the course of his reading, George Orwell probably encountered certain storytelling conventions over and over again, and these are the devices he would have most likely used in his work. That is why it does not follow that, even though his 1984 resembles other books of its
futuristic genre, Orwell read those books; it is possible that he and the other authors were simply drawing on the same body of literary conventions.

(D) A recent film that involves car chases, explosions, and clever villains is not necessarily directly influenced by other films of the action genre.

(E) A historical romance novel does not fit into its literary genre unless it employs certain kinds of conventions.

SwathiKumar

Hi! So this is a principle type question, but put in a slightly complicated way. The passage is giving you an application of a principle and the answers are also applications of principles. So here you'd have to deduce the correct principle and then apply it to the answers to see which answer is a correct application of the principle you deduced. The stim says the Orwell probably encountered the same storytelling conventions many times. (Storytelling conventions meaning the overall conventions in a certain genre, not specific plotlines in different stories. Kind of how a in a horror movie there's always that one person that decides to go out alone and becomes the first victim. The way this happens differs in each movie but its pretty much something you'd expect to see coming into one.) And after that the stim says that its not necessarily that Orwell has read the books that 1984 resembles, since he's and all the other authors had encountered these themes before. So I interpreted this principle as "Works of art may have been influenced by a overall theme rather than other pieces in of same genre." The closest application to that principle would be D- that the film wasn't necessarily directly influenced by other films of the action genre. E is wrong since nothing about the passage suggests that a book MUST employ certain conventions to fit in certain themes, just that certain themes are common in certain genres. Hope this helps let me know if I can clarify anything!