PrepTest 129, Section 4, Question 18
The following passages are adapted from critical essays(486 more words not shown)
Passage A(229 more words not shown)
Passage B(250 more words not shown)
Both authors would be likely(20 more words not shown)
- ADescription of the(15 more words not shown)
- BA plot that(15 more words not shown)
- CDescription of a(7 more words not shown)
- DDirect representation of(13 more words not shown)
- EA narration of(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Watch the NOT. We need something both accounts suggest Cather would avoid. A gives us the narrow overlap with B: she doesn't directly explain her characters' emotions. She lets us infer what is happening inside them from what we see outside.
Working the answers
- A
Setting is explicitly part of A's account, and B mentions Cather's treatment of landscape. A revealing chair or other selected detail is compatible with the technique.
- B
B describes unusual treatment of narrative time as one of her features. That gives us no reason to exclude a nonchronological plot; A doesn't establish that exclusion either.
- C
A expressly discusses selected details of appearance and action. Such details can reveal a character without directly explaining the character's thoughts.
- D
Neither account says she avoids dialogue or quotation marks. Directly quoting speech isn't the same as directly narrating someone's private thoughts.
- ECorrect
This tells us the character's inner thoughts, anxieties, and wishes outright. A says she conveys emotional reality through behavior rather than depicting emotions directly, and B contrasts her indirect technique with the realistic novel's direct psychological characterization. E is the feature both accounts give us reason to exclude.
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