Literary critic: Samuel Johnson argued

Answer choices

1. A

   Trap2% picked this

   One-dimensional characters are less entertaining than

   Unrelated to Goal Out of Scope: one-dimensional, well-rounded, entertaining This is bringing up new stuff and not giving us the old stuff we're looking for. We need to prove the author's conclusion, so the correct answer has to help us establish that a realistic work of fiction would give its immoral characters some attractive qualities. This answer doesn't say anything resembling that "immoral characters / attractive qualities".

   2%
2. B

   Trap8% picked this

   The attractive qualities of characters are more appealing than their

   Unrelated to Goal Out of Scope: appealing The concept of what is more / less appealing has nothing to do with our goal. We need to prove that the attractive qualities of immoral characters is realistic.

   8%
3. C

   Correct78% picked this

   In reality, all bad people have some

   Why this is right

   If in reality, all bad people have some attractive qualities, then any fictional work where the bad (immoral) people didn't have attractive qualities wouldn't match reality. Thus, it would be unrealistic. This answer would allow us to prove that the last sentence is true.

   Skill tested: Sufficient Assumption · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   78%
4. D

   Trap8% picked this

   In reality, it is difficult to emulate

   Unrelated to Goal Out of Scope: difficult / emulate The concept of how easy / difficult it is to emulate (try to copy) a character from a fictional book is totally out of scope. We're just trying to establish that "it's unrealistic if immoral characters don't have attractive qualities". This answer doesn't say anything like that.

   8%
5. E

   Trap5% picked this

   It is rarely evident which qualities of fictional characters are intended to

   Unrelated to Goal Out of Scope: intended to be attractive The concept of which qualities of a character are / aren't intended to be attractive has nothing to do with our agenda. We are just trying to prove that a work in which immoral character lack attractive qualities would not seem realistic. and this answer doesn't speak to immoral characters or to realism.

   5%