<p>I was racing through some CR practice when I came upon this question.</p>
<p>I can't see why the answer is (E) a personal account leading to a general observation, rather than (B) amusing anecdotes countered by a profound insight</p>
<p>Could anyone explain? Both choices seem similar to me.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Well, if this is the passage about the brain adjusting which I hope it is, the first whole section of passage is simply what happened to him. That's a person narrative. An anecdote is defined as a biographical incident, while this is autobiographical, and there is only one so it wouldn't be "anecdotes." Also, I would say that profound insight is a bit to extreem. It's more of a theory or an "observation" that the author introduces, but he hardly argues for its validity. What do you think?</p>
<p>Also the word "countered" doesn't really make that much sense, since the theory at the end is actually just an expansion of the anecodotes and is not countered by them.<br>
The personal account serves as a basis for and "leads" to the "general observation."</p>
<p>Hm.. yea, I think the "countered" best explains it. Didn't even notice it at first >.<</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>