Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, a landmark novel of the magical realism ______ established the author as a leading figure of the Latin American literary boom.
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readingWhich choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A
genre, and
B
genre,
C
genre and
D
genre
Correct Answer: D
Choice D is the best answer. The phrase "a landmark novel of the magical realism genre" is an appositive describing the subject, One Hundred Years of Solitude. The appositive ends at "genre," and the main verb of the sentence is "established." No punctuation should separate the subject (the novel) from its verb ("established") once the appositive is concluded.