PrepTest 123, Section 4, Question 8
For decades, there has been a deep rift(452 more words not shown)
If this passage had been(27 more words not shown)
- AThe number of(12 more words not shown)
- BBecause of the(17 more words not shown)
- CNarrative poetry will(10 more words not shown)
- DThere will probably(11 more words not shown)
- EWriters who continue(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
If the writer continued, where would the discussion naturally go? Back to the main trend: the bias against crossing genre boundaries is diminishing, several writers are respected for both kinds of work, and Dove shows what that crossing can look like.
What we’re looking for
I would expect that movement to continue, with more writers working in both poetry and fiction. That's a modest extension of what we have read, not a prediction that the two genres or all specialization will disappear.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
More writers working in both genres would continue the change already described. It keeps the focus on writers crossing the boundary without claiming that everyone will do so.
- B
We haven't been given a market forecast for pure lyric poetry. A change in what writers produce doesn't establish that readers will buy less of another kind of writing.
- C
The description of blended elements doesn't propose a new classification of narrative poetry as a type of fiction. The writer continues to refer to Dove's poems as poetry.
- D
Increased specialization points in the opposite direction from the movement away from rigid separation emphasized here.
- E
More writers doing both doesn't mean specialists will lose their audiences. Readers might still enjoy work by poets or fiction writers who stay within one genre; no audience shift is established.
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