Question

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

• A. A particularly interesting example of inference occurs in many single panel comics.
• B. It’s the creator’s participation and imagination that makes the single-panel comic so engaging and so rewarding.
• C. Often, the humor requires you to imagine what happened in the instant immediately before or immediately after the panel you’re being shown.
• D. To get the joke, you actually have to figure out what some of these missing panels must be.
• E. It is as though the cartoonist devised a series of panels to tell the story and has chosen to show you only one – and typically not even the funniest.

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

It’s the creator’s participation and imagination that makes the single-panel comic so engaging and so rewarding.

Answer 2

This question presents a higher level of difficulty. Initially, all the statements may seem interconnected. Option 2 emphasizes the creator's participation and imagination in making single-panel comics engaging and rewarding. The opening sentence can have two potential candidates, 1 or 2.

Sentence 1 aims to provide an intriguing example of inference found in single-panel comics. Inference involves arriving at conclusions based on evidence, a skill precisely exercised in single-panel comics. The viewer is presented with a panel and must imagine, through humor, what might have occurred just before or after, requiring inference to understand the joke. Therefore, 1 stands out as a better opening sentence. The sequence 1345 forms a coherent paragraph.

The reason why 2 cannot be the opening sentence is clarified by the fact that it mentions the creator's participation, while in this context, the creator is not actively participating but rather concealing something, prompting the viewer to use their imagination and make inferences.