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Verbal·Standard English Conventions·Form, Structure, and Sense
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Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818) is considered a satire of another novel popular at the time: Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), which Austen’s heroine, Catherine Morland, is depicted reading. However, the similarity of the __________ experiences—the predicaments of both Catherine and Radcliffe’s Emily St. Aubert result from men’s greed—suggests that underlying the satire is a social critique.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A
novel’s protagonists’
B
novels’ protagonists’
C
novel’s protagonist’s
D
novels’ protagonists