PrepTest 105, Section 3, Question 25
In the past, students of Renaissance women's education(447 more words not shown)
Which one of the following,(29 more words not shown)
- AGrammar students were(17 more words not shown)
- BStudents of dialectic(16 more words not shown)
- CGrammar training had(19 more words not shown)
- DGrammar training included(14 more words not shown)
- ETraining in dialectic(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The distinction is between receiving ideas and putting forward your own. Grammar students are cast as an audience trying to understand authors and teachers; dialectic and rhetoric prepare students to argue themselves.
What we’re looking for
To weaken that contrast, I'd look for grammar students doing something active with their own ideas, or rhetoric students merely receiving someone else's. The answer needs to change that relationship.
Working the answers
- A
Emulating selected authors still makes their techniques the models. It doesn't establish that students practice articulating their own ideas—the feature that would directly challenge their assigned audience role. Copying can involve effort without erasing this distinction.
- B
This is worth considering: the students don't choose the topics. But they still debate them. A teacher can assign the subject while the students develop and express their own arguments. That isn't the same as simply listening to a debate.
- C
When grammar is taught doesn't tell us whether students act as an audience or express their own ideas. This changes the sequence, not the distinction we're testing.
- DCorrect
Exercises in articulating one's own ideas make grammar students speakers with something of their own to say. That directly challenges the description of them as an audience striving to understand others. It matches the first route we predicted.
- E
Oral versus written expression is a different distinction. Either form can involve expressing your own ideas; emphasizing speech doesn't make rhetoric passive.
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