PrepTest 133, Section 4, Question 12
The literary development of Kate Chopin, author of(448 more words not shown)
The author of the passage(19 more words not shown)
- Aargue that Chopin's(8 more words not shown)
- Bexplain why Chopin(8 more words not shown)
- Cestablish the background(5 more words not shown)
- Dillustrate the excesses(8 more words not shown)
- Eprove that women's(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
These sentences tell us what Chopin read when she was growing up. Before explaining how her own fiction changed, the author establishes the literary world she started from. My prediction is background for her development.
Working the answers
- A
Learning what she read isn't an argument that her writing mimicked it. The third paragraph instead explains her effort to avoid its excesses.
- B
Her lack of nostalgia helps explain the later move beyond the local colorists. These opening sentences describe sentimental novels, not that later disagreement.
- CCorrect
The description supplies the background we predicted: the language, concerns, and female characters of the fiction surrounding her youth. Her later choices make sense against that starting point.
- D
The local colorists' nostalgia appears later. The description of earlier sentimental fiction is not presented as Chopin's warning about where nostalgia would lead.
- E
The novels formed the bulk of fiction at the time, but proving that women's literature was flourishing isn't the job of these sentences. Their details establish the tradition from which Chopin's own writing developed.
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