PrepTest 136, Section 3, Question 9
Passage A Readers, like writers, need to search(481 more words not shown)
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Which one of the following(16 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Both writers say the human story disappears behind an abstract treatment. A describes history turned into debate remote from the people who lived it. B describes legal analysis removing a case's human narrative to produce its abstract legal form. We need that shared feature of current writing, not the storytelling they hope to encourage.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
A explicitly calls the history writing an “abstract debate”; B refers to the “abstract, canonical legal form” of the case. Different professional settings, same tendency to move away from concrete human experience.
- B
Neither identifies exaggeration as the usual problem. Abstract writing can be dull without being hyperbolic.
- C
B calls the new narrative movement potentially subversive. That describes a proposed challenge to existing practice, not the typical writing produced under it. A doesn't identify subversion as a shared existing feature either.
- D
Narrative is what both authors want more attention paid to. Its absence or neglect is part of their complaint, so it cannot describe the typical writing they criticize.
- E
A says historians leave little to the imagination, and B describes conformity with creativity treated suspiciously. Imagination is not the common existing characteristic.
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