LSAT Question Explanation
PT 105, Section 4, Question 10
PrinciplesArgument structure
Orwell may not have read other books in the futuristic genre.
Orwell and other authors may have just been drawing on the same literary conventions and that's how they ended up with books of a similar genre.
Explanation
The principle underlying the stimulus is that works from the same genre may not have directly influenced one another, but rather could just have been drawing from the same source of inspiration.
We need an answer choice that shows another example of this principle happening.
Answer choices
This novel was directly influenced by other novels from it's own genre, which is what the stimulus said did not necessarily apply to Orwell.
This compares mystery novels to works of different genres. We are concerned with how works within the same genre may or may not have been influenced.
This is saying you have to study works within your own genre to find success. The argument never talked about success, and said Orwell may not have studied other works within the same genre as 1984.
Here's a situation where an action movie may not have been directly influenced by other works from that same genre.
This is talking about how a genre is defined which seems irrelevant to the argument and principle.