"It wasn't long before she had me writing a paper on the evils of eurocentric curricula."
Which statement BEST explains why this quotation from the selection includes jargon?
A) It's impossible to write a paper on this topic.
B) The quotation does not include an example of jargon.
C) It is an exaggeration to call eurocentric curricula "evil."
D) The phrase eurocentric curricula would not be understood by most people.
Excerpt from Music to My Ears
John Devine
My meanderings into the shaded grove of poetry seemed like the perfect escape from my father’s medical mumbo jumbo until I realized in college that my literature professors often sounded as poetic as a ten-car pileup. I recall in particular one professor who asked us to read a poem by Alexander Pope called The R-ape of the Lock, a humorous poem about a young man who cuts off a wisp of a young woman’s hair. Sounds pretty straightforward, right? Well, before I knew what was what, my young professor demanded that I “deconstruct” the poem and analyze it for evidence of what she called “commodity fet-ishism.” “I want to read the thing,” I told her, “Not pull it apart.” And when I asked her what commodity fet-ishism was, she looked at me as if I were some inferior life form. “Look it up!” Said she, frowning. I had to pull an all-nighter to finish that assignment in time. It wasn't long before she had me writing a paper on the evils of eurocentric curricula. I finally put my foot down when she demanded that I attend her lecture on the perils of Islamaphobia.
