Question

2. Pick out the odd element from the group and rewrite the sentence. [2]

1. Anita Desai, Nayantara Sehgal, R.K. Narayan, Heman Melville.

2. Place, Period, Theme, climate, life-style

3. Theme, Language/style, Character, Stream of consciousness, Setting.

4. Realistic, Psychological, Autobiographical, Complex, Picarresqu​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Heman 2. climate 3. Setting 4. picarresqu

Answer 2

The odd ones:

1. Heman Melville

2. Theme

3. Stream of consciousness

4. Complex

Picking the odd ones:

• We are given a set of contents and we have to find the one which is odd from the rest in the list.
• In Q1, we have names of authors/ writers given. Anita Desai, Nayantara Sehgal and R.K. Narayan are Indian writers in English. But Herman Melville is an American writer. So the odd one is Herman Melville.
• In Q2, they have given us  words that talk about the physical background. In these: Place, Period, climate and life-style all talk about a place -its culture, and its atmosphere. But theme is the odd on which doesn't fit in here.
• In Q3, we have the elements of drama - Theme, Language/style, Character and Setting. But stream of consciousness is a techniques in writing. So it is the odd one.
• In Q4, they have given the kinds of novels - Realistic, Psychological, Autobiographical and Picaresque. But Complex is not a specific kind of novel​. Thus this is the odd one here.