Understanding Support/Contrast for a few questions

Hi all, ive just started my verbal prep, I am following the 1 month thing and honestly a bit lost as to how to figure the “logic” as it’s honestly diff for diff sentences. Putting down my doubts:

  1. This poetry is not ____ ; (it is more likely to appeal to an international audience) than is poetry with strictly regional themes.

Here Greg mentioned that (it is…audience) is neutral, however isn’t that subjective? It’s very easy for one to assume that’s a good thing because it’s diverse, understood by more people. And while ok, reading such sentence can still make you understand what the black should be, but by logic it kind of doesn’t make sense.

  1. Poe’s review of contemporary fiction, which often find great merit in otherwise ___literary gems, must make us respect his critical judgement in addition to his well-known literary talent.

Here Greg mentioned MAKE is the support word, couldn’t find it in the list excel sheet. Secondly, support/contrast words connect sentences and the ones before and after should convey logic, the sentence before make cannot be decided if it’s +ve/-ve hence how to find out the logic without actually trying to understand the sentence.

  1. You cannot assume anything is subjective -the given information is the bible, whatever it says is the ultimate truth. Coming to your query, here the logic is the semi colon( ;), which means the full idea after the semi colon must be similar to the full idea before semi colon.
    Read; rephrase and get main idea of the second part. It says- it is more likely to appeal international audience than being fixated on regional themes ( the main idea is it is diverse). If something is diverse, what it cannot be? It can not be singular/ narrow/ specific, etc ( also check subtle shift of the logic of the first idea by using “not”).

  2. “Make” is a support word. In Greg’s list there are words like “leads to”, “resulting from”- which has similar meaning. Just add it to your own list of support words

Makes sense. Thanks for the response.

Can you explain here how is sensitive in option 2 not a negative word?

You will first go through POE and eliminate C and D.

Sensitive also means discernible, thoughtful, insightful, acute- which are positive. A trick to keep sensitive in your consideration is that
there is no better answer than ephemeral in the options.
If fashion and public taste are resistant to analysis, it’s a bad thing. The same is applicable for ephemeral.

Gotcha! Can I bother you with more questions? I am on my day 4 lectures and since they are recorded, prefer posting my questions here on the forum to get them solved as soon as possible because they are fresh in practice and memory.

In the below question, i got the 1st blank right, but not the 2nd one. I went ahead with behaviour as well, not sure why memory is correct? If you’re deriving some learnings about childhood from adults…you will refer to their behaviour and not memory? How does that make sense…

What does POE mean?