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

The Correct Option is B

The problem requires identifying an odd sentence that doesn't fit into a coherent paragraph formed by the other four sentences. Let's analyze each sentence for logical flow and relationship:

1. A particularly interesting example of inference occurs in many single panel comics.
2. Often, the humor requires you to imagine what happened in the instant immediately before or immediately after the panel you’re being shown.
3. To get the joke, you actually have to figure out what some of these missing panels must be.
4. 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.
5. It's the creator’s participation and imagination that makes the single-panel comic so engaging and so rewarding.

Sentences 1, 2, 3, and 4 all discuss the concept of single-panel comics, particularly how they require viewers to use inference and imagination to understand the humor. Let's break it down:

• Sentence 1 introduces the concept related to comics and inference.
• Sentence 2 explains the necessity of imagination for understanding the comic.
• Sentence 3 continues the same idea, suggesting the need for figuring out missing parts.
• Sentence 4 gives a possible explanation of the cartoonist's approach.

Sentence 5, while still related to single-panel comics, focuses on the creator’s imagination rather than the reader’s use of inference. This sentence shifts the focus from the viewer’s interpretation to the creator's role, thus disrupting the flow connecting viewer inference and comic structure. Therefore, the odd one out is:

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