Director Leila Okafor’s screen adaptation of the novel “Night Ferry” moves the disclosure of the captain’s identity from the final chapter to the opening scene while retaining the novel’s major events and much of its dialogue. A scene-by-scene inventory might therefore indicate that a later exchange has been preserved: the same words accompany the same action. That inventory, however, cannot establish that the exchange performs the same structural role in both versions. _____ audience knowledge is absent from the inventory, though it determines whether a remark creates a suspicion or confirms one.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
For transitions involving cause and support, identify both propositions and determine the direction between them. Distinguish a transition that introduces a reason for the previous claim from one that presents a consequence of that claim, even when both choices broadly signal a causal relationship.
Hints
Compare the two propositions
Determine how the inventory’s inability to establish structural function relates to its omission of audience knowledge.
Track causal direction
Ask whether the information after the blank is a result of the preceding claim or a reason that the claim is true.
Step-by-step Explanation
Identify the limitation
The inventory records whether the same words and actions appear, but the preceding sentence says that this information cannot establish whether an exchange performs the same structural role.
Examine the supporting information
The clause after the blank explains that audience knowledge is absent from the inventory even though that knowledge determines whether a remark creates or confirms a suspicion.
Determine the direction of reasoning
The omission of audience knowledge explains the inventory’s limitation; it is not a result of that limitation. Therefore, the blank requires a transition that introduces a justification for the preceding claim.