Parajumbles Question 6 - CAT 2025

Question

The effigy of a candidate establishes a personal link between him and the voters; the candidate does not only offer a programme for judgement, he suggests a physical climate, a set of daily choices expressed in a morphology, a way of dressing, a posture.

Some candidates for Parliament adorn their electoral prospectus with a portrait; this presupposes that photography has a power to convert which must be analysed.

Inasmuch as photography is an ellipse of language and a condensation of an ‘ineffable’ social whole, it constitutes an anti-intellectual weapon and tends to spirit away ‘politics’ (that is to say a body of problems and solutions) to the advantage of a ‘manner of being’, a socio-moral status.

Photography tends to restore the paternalistic nature of elections, whose elitist essence has been disrupted by proportional representation and the rule of parties (the Right seems to use it more than the Left).

Correct Sequence: 2143
Explanation: Sentence 2 establishes the opening scenario: political candidates placing portraits on their election flyers, calling for an analysis of this visual power. Sentence 1 kicks off the analysis (2-1) by showing how this portrait ("the effigy") bypasses a candidate's actual written policies to project a physical vibe, clothing style, and posture. Sentence 4 notes how this heavy visual reliance transforms the systemic framework, restoring a paternalistic element to politics. Sentence 3 summarizes this transformation cleanly by asserting that photography ultimately serves as an "anti-intellectual weapon" that replaces real structural problem-solving with a mere "manner of being."
FundaMakers Tip: Vocabulary Substitution Links. Look closely for functional synonyms. In this parajumble, the author uses the sophisticated word "effigy" in sentence 1 as a direct conceptual substitute for the candidate's "portrait" introduced in sentence 2. Identifying these vocabulary links will keep your sequence perfectly aligned.