PrepTest 123, Section 4, Question 7
For decades, there has been a deep rift(452 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(16 more words not shown)
- AEach of Dove's(19 more words not shown)
- BThe aesthetic value(21 more words not shown)
- CThe way in(13 more words not shown)
- DNarrative that uses(10 more words not shown)
- EWriters who successfully(19 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This is a broad inference question, so I don't have a specific new claim to predict. Keep the actual account of Dove in view: she is one of several respected writers crossing the boundary, and the last paragraph explains how her lyrical expression and narrative details work together. I'll check each proposed conclusion against that account.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The writer still calls the works “her poetry” and “her fiction.” The fiction is “undeniably prose” despite using poetic features. Blending elements therefore doesn't erase the primary classifications. A poem can tell a story without ceasing to be primarily poetry; fiction can use lyrical language without ceasing to be primarily fiction.
- B
The final paragraph explains both narrative and the evocation of inner states. It doesn't say the narrative supplies the aesthetic value instead of the emotional expression. Describing both features isn't ranking one above the other.
- C
Dove is an example among “several recent writers.” That doesn't tell us who came first, so it cannot establish that her way of blending genres had no precedent.
- D
Praising Dove's lyrical narratives doesn't establish a general superiority over pure lyric poetry. No comparison of their aesthetic value is made.
- E
The German examples include movement into drama, but they don't establish that writers who cross between poetry and fiction often make that additional move. We aren't given that general pattern.
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