Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the best option to make it a correct sentence.

When what “Mark Twain” was writing was in circuit with his deepest perceptions he was superb; the breaking of the circuit always threw him into extemporization, which meant that fiction fell away into ________ and satire into ________.

  1. tranquility, staid

  2. rationality, slack

  3. frugality, parody

  4. extravaganza, burlesque

  5. prodigality, asinine
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The first part of the sentence highlights the positive part whereas the latter part is broadly comic or derisive, as is indicated by the word ‘satire’ in latter part of the sentence. ‘Extravaganza’ and ‘burlesque’ in option (4) substantiates the blank, hence the answer.

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