For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

Students may consider modernist works such as James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake to be more _______ than Victorian prose: Victorian narratives are linear and predictable, while Joyce’s tortuous plots are fragmented and fickle, and they confound the reader.

a. Banal 

b. Recondite 

c. Elegiac 

d. Mundane 

e. Panegyric