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<p>The revolt against Victorianism was perhaps even more marked in poetry than either fiction or drama.</p>
<p>(D) in either fiction or drama
(E) in either fiction or in drama</p>
<p>I can't decide what makes either one of those better than the other. The book said it's (D), but I don't know why. Any ideas?</p>
<p>I'm tossing parallelism around for like everything, but "in" is with "either," so your choices are between: "fiction or in drama" or "fiction or drama," and the latter is obviously more parallel than the first choice.</p>
<p>It kinda makes sense.</p>
<p>pretend "fiction or drama" is one word. it's hard to explain, but read the sentence out loud with both choices. when E is read, the sentence does not flow as easily. the second "in" chops the sentence up. "fiction of drama" is like one idea, and thus, only one "in" is necessaruy.</p>
<p>I still don't really get it...</p>
<p>comisar dancingbear is right.. its about the flow...
dont u thing that in the second choice "in" is not necessary and again disturbs the flow of the sentence.
just say both the sentences loud and then im sure you'll be able to pick the right one..</p>
<p>Yep, trust your ear.
Can't do much else with an idiom :(.</p>
<p>Yeah I guess that kind of sounds better, but after a couple dozen of those questions, your brain gets sorta fried and it gets harder to use your ear... haha</p>
<p>Thanks everyone, though.</p>
<p>Also, the problem has repetition in it. (same as parallelism)</p>
<p>Yeah, I knew it was parallelism, but I didn't know how to make it parallel. What I was thinking was that since it was IN poetry, it would be IN fiction and IN drama. But whatever...</p>
<p>even if it was, </p>
<p>(E) in either fiction or in drama</p>
<p>the in is with "in either," not fiction.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's right.</p>