PrepTest 121, Section 2, Question 10
In spite of a shared language, Latin American(426 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(20 more words not shown)
- AThe use of(18 more words not shown)
- BThe use of(25 more words not shown)
- CThe use of(24 more words not shown)
- DLatin American poets(17 more words not shown)
- ELatin American poetry(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We know these poets explore forms from other cultures; the haiku example makes that concrete. My first thought is simply that they are curious and willing to experiment. I'm less certain what further explanation the answers will propose, so we'll need to check the connection in the final paragraph.
Working the answers
- A
Borrowing a form isn't the same as trying to manufacture a cultural past. The writer describes exploration, not an attempt to give themselves someone else's history.
- BCorrect
This requires a closer look at the connection. We are told that Latin American poetry has no equally distant Spanish-language past to romanticize. “Instead,” it explores other cultures' literature and structures. That sequence supports viewing the borrowing as a response to the absence of that particular past. It's more specific than my initial prediction, but the relationship is supported.
- C
This reverses the explanatory direction: borrowing forms supposedly causes poets to reconsider the absence of a past. We aren't told that the borrowing produces that reassessment.
- D
Neruda illustrates the search for a world before recorded history. Nothing says poets who take that route cannot also borrow other cultures' poetic structures. The two responses aren't declared mutually exclusive.
- E
We aren't told that the poets screen out forms from culturally conservative traditions. The account doesn't supply that restriction or classify the traditions they borrow from in that way.
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