Toni Morrison's prose ______ poetic, demanding, and emotionally devastating ______ earned her both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A
, —
- B
—,
- C
, ,
- Dcheck_circle
—, —
Explanation
A pair of em-dashes properly sets off a parenthetical containing internal commas, providing emphasis and clarity. Mismatched punctuation is ungrammatical, and commas alone would create confusion with the internal commas.