PrepTest 135, Section 3, Question 6
In the 1980s there was a proliferation of(441 more words not shown)
The author most likely intends(23 more words not shown)
- AThe events presented(13 more words not shown)
- BWhen different modes(15 more words not shown)
- CAutobiographical writing should(4 more words not shown)
- DSketches and poems(15 more words not shown)
- EPersonal experiences can(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Existing generic parameters means the established boundaries or conventions of autobiography. The final paragraph contrasts those conventions with the changes these writers make. Chronological ordering is the clearest example: Moraga organizes events around political development instead of simply telling them in the order they happened.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Arranging events by when they happened is chronological ordering. The third paragraph explicitly contrasts the departure from that ordering with the traditional autobiographical model. This supplies the old convention our prediction identified.
- B
Combining modes without generally giving one preference describes the collections' experimental approach in the second paragraph. It doesn't identify an existing boundary they are refusing to follow.
- C
Moraga's work has a political organizing principle, but we aren't told that traditional autobiography prohibited political content. A new way of arranging politics doesn't establish a former ban on politics.
- D
Mixing forms rather than keeping them separate is part of the experimentation. This again substitutes the writers' approach for the convention the question asks about.
- E
This is a broad claim about the expressive potential of any literary genre. It isn't a convention governing how an autobiography should be written.
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