An esteemed literary critic, Mr. Wood has put together a (i) ______ volume about literary technique, his playful exuberance (ii) ______ the dry, jargon-strewn tradition of academic criticism. Mr. Wood can’t claim to be (iii) ______; he has restricted himself to citations available in his personal library. Nor does he attempt to be methodical, as chapters proceed in higgledy-piggledy fashion. But few books about novel writing provide such insights into the craft.
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(A) deft (D) wonderfully at odds with (G) entertaining
(B) pretentious (E) heavily influenced by (H) accessible
(C) comprehensive (F) largely superseded by (I) thorough