Prompt: Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the reasoning in the critic’s argument?
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How will the right answer fit in terms of support and conclusion?
Only the right answer will add support for the conclusion in the passage.
Highlight the main conclusion in the passage, if there is one:
The criticism of the popular film comedy Quirks for not being realistic is misguided.
Critic: [CONCLUSION]. [BACKGROUND]. [BACKGROUND], but [SUPPORT]. And [SUPPORT].
Map the wording of the answers to the wording of the passage:
(A) The support is that the movie is funny, not “how well they accurately capture the world”.
(B) Tricky, since the author does say the movie is “popular”. But that’s just background, not support. So this doesn’t connect to the support about the movie being funny, and doesn’t support the author’s conclusion.
(C) We’re not supporting a conclusion about where comedies “find their humor”.
(D) The passage doesn’t use the word “successful”, so the test expects you to recognize that maps to a conclusion about criticism being misguided. If movies “succeed within their genre” then they’re doing “the important thing for a comedy”, so this whole thing lines up nicely with the passage.
(E) The bit about “stay entirely within a single genre” doesn’t map to anything stated. That wouldn’t support a conclusion about the criticism being misguided.
(D) is the correct answer.
Elliot Hirsen / LSAT coach 
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