Nevertheless, the claim – advocated by many experts – that a child acts more like a "grammatical genius" than an empty slate, a "tabula rasa", ready to be written on and forged by experience, seem ____________ to those who think of language as the zenith of the human intellect and who think of instincts as brute impulse that compel furry or feathered zombies to build a dam or up and fly south. A. consonance B. jarring C. tangent D. prehensile E. manifest