PrepTest 133, Section 4, Question 8
The literary development of Kate Chopin, author of(448 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(9 more words not shown)
- AAlthough Chopin drew(39 more words not shown)
- BAvoiding the sentimental(39 more words not shown)
- CWith its stylistic(27 more words not shown)
- DIn The Awakening(31 more words not shown)
- EBecause she felt(35 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We've already predicted the central idea: Chopin evolved as a writer. The sentimental novels she read, the local colorists she used as models, and the New Women she later followed all help explain the style she developed.
What we’re looking for
Look for that progression, allowing the answer to make our rough prediction more precise.
Working the answers
- A
Chopin used local-colorist techniques to avoid sentimental excess, not to recapture the atmosphere of those early novels. A gives that borrowing the wrong purpose and misses the direction of her development.
- BCorrect
This follows the progression we predicted: avoiding sentimental excess, borrowing local-colorist conventions, and then embracing New Women innovations. It ties those influences to the style of The Awakening, which is where the account ends.
- C
We learn about the novel's varied sections and focus on the protagonist's mind. That doesn't establish that it was unlike every other nineteenth-century work. The account also concerns the influences leading to the novel, not just its unusual features.
- D
Elevated, romantic language belongs to the sentimental novels whose excesses Chopin wanted to avoid. We aren't told she returned to that language in The Awakening to express loneliness and frustration.
- E
This gets her relationship to the local colorists backward. She borrowed their conventions while differing in subject matter and rejecting their nostalgia. Their style wasn't simply what drove her away.
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