6. Like the idolization accorded the Brontes and Brownings, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are often subjected to the kind of veneration that blurs the distinction between the artist and the human being.
(A) Like the idolization accorded the Brontes and Brownings
(B) As the Brontes’ and Brownings’ idolization
(C) Like that accorded to the Brontes and Brownings
(D) As it is of the Brontes and Brownings
(E) Like the Brontes and Brownings
Logical predication
This sentence intends to compare nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. Instead the comparison becomes ambiguous and illogical. Like must be used to compare similar elements: Joyce and Woolf are like the Brontes and the Brownings; they are not like the idolization. 比较对象平行问题
A The idolization accorded is not comparable to Joyce and Woolf
B The conjunction as my introduce a clause but not a phrase; Joyce and Woolf are compared to idolization rather than to the writers
C That is ambiguous, and Joyce and Woolf are compared to that rather than to the writers
D It is ambiguous; as it is of is awkward and wordy; the twentieth-century writers are compared to it rather than to the nineteenth-century writers.
E Correct. In this sentence, like introduces a clear and concise comparison that correctly links the nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers.
The correct answer is E. | 
