RC Drill Set 7, Question 13
Passage A is from a review of author(488 more words not shown)
Passage A(280 more words not shown)
Passage B(216 more words not shown)
The primary purpose of passage(3 more words not shown)
- Acontrast the literary(9 more words not shown)
- Bsupport the claim(8 more words not shown)
- Cdescribe the literary(7 more words not shown)
- Ddefend the judgment(12 more words not shown)
- Eprovide evidence that(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We already predicted A's central point: Welty's writing was daring despite her sheltered life. Its purpose should be to establish that idea. Look for a version of it, rather than an answer that names just one way the writer supports it.
Working the answers
- A
The comparison with Hemingway and Faulkner helps show Welty's unusual willingness to try new styles. That is one supporting move, not the full purpose.
- BCorrect
A calls Welty a stylistic adventurer equal to any twentieth-century American writer (Passage A, paragraph 2), then supports that claim through her continued experimentation. Her settled personal life makes the artistic daring stand out. This brings the two paragraphs together.
- C
Farce and Southern Gothic illustrate her range. The writer is not primarily teaching us about those genres or cataloging everything she wrote.
- D
A does not argue that later work was better. It praises an early style she had already “perfected,” then emphasizes her willingness to move on to something new.
- E
Compassion is an emphasis in B. A is about stylistic daring, so this gives us the other writer's concern.
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