PrepTest 152, Section 3, Question 12
Film scholar David Bordwell refers to the years(453 more words not shown)
The narrative structure of which(30 more words not shown)
- Aa novel that(24 more words not shown)
- Ba novel that(32 more words not shown)
- Ca novel that(35 more words not shown)
- Da novel that(26 more words not shown)
- Ea novel that(26 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Imagine reading a fantasy adventure that pauses for a long, elaborate song. The characters' story stops moving while we attend to the performance. That captures the structure we're looking for, provided the song isn't supplying information that advances the plot.
What we’re looking for
The musical has narrative scenes interrupted by artistic interludes. The interruption and its purpose both matter. A flashback that explains an event can interrupt chronological order while still doing important work for the story; that would be a different relationship.
Working the answers
- A
Leaving out information needed to understand events is not the same as pausing to present a separate artistic display. Missing context doesn't give us the interlude we predicted.
- B
Following several characters until a final event unites them is a way of constructing a narrative. The separate storylines still build toward that event; no self-contained artistic interruption is described.
- C
The characters' experiences combine into a portrait of a day. Again, the pieces contribute to the larger narrative design rather than interrupting it for elaborate material about something else.
- D
This is closer because the story pauses for fanciful sections. But the flashbacks provide information relevant to the events. They therefore serve the narrative, whereas the musical numbers are described as a respite from it. Fanciful doesn't automatically mean unrelated to the plot.
- ECorrect
The protagonist's day supplies the narrative, and the stylistically elaborate thoughts and fantasies about life in general interrupt it. Those sections draw us away from the sequence of events to attend to an artistic display. That matches the musical's alternation between story and performances only loosely connected to it.
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