In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in
each blank.
Comprehension:
Relate comic things (1)__________ pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are
essential to and characteristic (2)__________ beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend
(3)__________ the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blase ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical
farce, for a pantomime, and translate it (4) __________ a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, (5) ___________
atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days - the region of pure poetry.