PrepTest 105, Section 3, Question 18
Despite the great differences among the cultures from(438 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(20 more words not shown)
- Anarrative(1 more words not shown)
- Bexpressionistic(1 more words not shown)
- Csurreal(1 more words not shown)
- Duse of mainstream(2 more words not shown)
- Egreater naturalness of(1 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
After 1930. That puts us in the return to the writers’ own communities and everyday speech, with less dependence on fashionable mainstream trends (paragraph 3). Our prediction is a renewed focus on Hispanic communities and the way they speak.
What we’re looking for
None of the choices needs to repeat that wording exactly. The difficult part is recognizing a supported description of the shift.
Working the answers
- A
Searching and experimentation describe 1918–1930. The question asks about the period after it.
- B
Expressionism also belongs to the earlier phase. Its appearance in paragraph 3 doesn't establish it as the later period's defining feature.
- C
Surrealism appears alongside expressionism in that earlier phase. We don't get evidence that the subsequent return to local voices means greater surreal imagery.
- D
These works rely less on prevailing mainstream fashions (paragraph 3). Mainstream forms therefore don't describe the direction of the change, even if some later works could still use them.
- ECorrect
Colloquial dialects are people's familiar, everyday ways of speaking. Returning to those voices supports greater naturalness of expression, compared with the earlier emphasis on fashionable experimentation.
That is the bridge from our prediction to E. Naturalness doesn't mean boldness—the boldness described earlier belongs to the other period. We also don't have to assume the later writing abandons all imagination. The support is the return to ordinary speech.
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