In verfremdungseffekt, a method of stage performance, actors directly acknowledge the fictional nature of the story, and then, using a variety of immersion breaking techniques, encouraging the audience to critically examine the manipulative contrivances of the medium.
(A) In verfremdungseffekt, a method of stage performance, actors directly acknowledge the fictional nature of the story, and then, using a variety of immersion breaking techniques, encouraging the audience to critically examine the manipulative contrivances of the medium.
“and then, using a variety of immersion breaking techniques, encouraging” lacks a verb and thus is a fragment.
(B) Verfremdungseffekt is a method of stage performance in which actors directly acknowledge the fictional nature of the story and then, using a variety of immersion breaking techniques, encourage the audience to critically examine the manipulative contrivances of the medium.
Correct because it has “encourage” and correct modifications.
(C) Verfremdungseffekt actors, who employ a method of stage performance by directly acknowledging the fictional nature of the story, use a variety of immersion breaking techniques, and then encouraging the audience to critically examine the manipulative contrivances of the medium.
“and then encouraging” lacks a verb and thus is a fragment. Incorrect.
(D) Actors who directly acknowledge the fictional nature of the story use a variety of immersion breaking techniques and encourage the audience to critically examine the manipulative contrivances of the medium in order to employ verfremdungseffekt, a method of stage performance.
“and encourage the audience to critically examine XYZ in order to employ verfremdungseffekt” – illogically implies that the audience, not actors, employ verfremdungseffek, incorrect.
(E) Directly acknowledging the fictional nature of the story, and using a variety of immersion breaking techniques in order to encourage the audience to critically examine the manipulative contrivances of the medium, verfremdungseffekt is a method of stage performance done by actors.
“acknowledging” and “using” incorrectly modify “verfremdungseffekt”. It’s actors do these actions.
Hence B
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