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I am between C & E.
C because there is no "being"
E because it ensures perfect //ism.

But we know that //ism is more important to ets than gerund use so I would choose E
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I would go with D on this one
A and B are out because we need singular determinant "a"; it is written by one American
C is out because by inserting a present participle, it seems as if "a black American" includes Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison... Furthermore, why use the hyphen as a line-break? Not good to me.
Between D and E, I prefer D because what comes after the line-break, hyphen it is, should relate to the noun preceding it. Hence, the enumeration of names properly relates to Jean Toomer, a black American.
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I'll go with E.. we are comparing books firstly and not the authors, secondly, the parallelism is extasblished only through E....the apostrophe needs to be used everywhere...


This is my reasoning as well. E should be it
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agree with E. Novel/those books are being compared/talked about. E will have this construction..

A mixture of poems and short fiction, Jean Toomer’s Cane has been called one of the three best novels ever written by a Black American—the others being Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
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I think its E as well.

The "others" should compare books and not authors...
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Yes, after re-reading it I concede that it is E :oops:



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