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looking at the answer choices at first i was also struck in the last option but after while it got to me why it is not the first choice.
May be it is of taking a complete different aspect of society and mixing with another opposite aspect of the society which was never done before in the passage might lead to the wordings as "foriegn".
this might be the reason why it must have been option A or may be i am assuming it in that way, i don't know. Correct me if im wrong.
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Please help between A and E. The passage itself has talked about the function of art. Does that mean the art was already known for its function and the author merely gave a similar example from the current time. But magazines are no art.­
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­In the twelfth century the stained glass windows of cathedrals were perceived less as works of art than as chronicles of the ordinary lives of the townspeople. Like modern magazines, they related stories of important events, depicted prominent citizens in the community, and functioned as a record to preserve events for later generations.


(A) comparing something foreign with something more familiar to her readers


something in the past similar to what we do nowadays.


(E) reducing art to its function as a means of communication

Nothing in the stem suggests a tool or way or means to communicate something. There is a comparison.


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­In the twelfth century the stained glass windows of cathedrals were perceived less as works of art than as chronicles of the ordinary lives of the townspeople. Like modern magazines, they related stories of important events, depicted prominent citizens in the community, and functioned as a record to preserve events for later generations.


(A) comparing something foreign with something more familiar to her readers


something in the past similar to what we do nowadays.


(E) reducing art to its function as a means of communication

Nothing in the stem suggests a tool or way or means to communicate something. There is a comparison.


Hope this helps

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­Thank you. Yes, I had a connection issue. I have deleted the duplicate posts. Sorry for that. 

What I do not understand here is the word 'foreign' used for the stained glass. It could be ancient but commonly known.
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­in this context foreign= not known­

They actually made the second example of the magazine to show us that in the past centuries, something similar had been done with the glasses in the cathedrals.

Those glasses were the magazines of the time
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