PrepTest 137, Section 1, Question 12
Taking the explication of experience as its object(440 more words not shown)
It can be inferred that(21 more words not shown)
- Apersonal(1 more words not shown)
- Bdramatic(1 more words not shown)
- Cexpository(1 more words not shown)
- Dpoetic(1 more words not shown)
- Enovelistic(1 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What does Shostak do with Nisa's account? She gives it the recognizable shape of a life story. The surrounding sentences contrast loosely recounted events with the shaped narrative that emerges through their dialogue. Predict a storytelling convention, not merely the fact that someone reveals personal information.
Working the answers
- A
Personal information is revealed, but revelation alone doesn't explain the organizing work described here. The emphasis is on giving that information a story's shape.
- B
Making an event dramatic is different from arranging a life as a recognizable narrative. No particular dramatic emphasis is identified as the convention.
- C
The local discussion isn't comparing two things in order to explain them. It describes shaping one person's account of her life.
- D
The first paragraph does call Nisa's story a metaphor for women's experience, but this question points to the final paragraph. Here the convention concerns narrative form, not a poetic comparison.
- ECorrect
Novelistic storytelling gives the events the recognizable shape the author describes. Novelistic refers to how the story is organized; it doesn't require Nisa's life to be fictional or Shostak to invent what happened.
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