PrepTest 152, Section 3, Question 8
Film scholar David Bordwell refers to the years(453 more words not shown)
The passage identifies each of(15 more words not shown)
- Aavoidance of filmmaking(8 more words not shown)
- Bcreation and presentation(4 more words not shown)
- Cportrayal of a(5 more words not shown)
- Duse of nonnarrative(5 more words not shown)
- Edepiction of a(4 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Return to Bordwell's original definition in the first paragraph. Clear characters, chronological events, and filmmaking that serves a realistic story belong together. The musical numbers are introduced afterward as a problem for that definition. Because this is an EXCEPT question, we want the feature that comes from the challenge rather than from the original account.
Working the answers
- A
The first paragraph says filmmakers avoid techniques that foreground the medium instead of the narrative (paragraph 1). This is expressly part of the definition.
- B
Bordwell's account follows “well-defined characters.” Clearly defined characters therefore belong on the list.
- C
A realistic story is described as self-sufficient and recognizably related to our world. This restates that feature rather than adding an exception.
- DCorrect
Nonnarrative interludes are the musical's problematic feature. The second paragraph describes performances that interrupt the story, and the third gives Bordwell's attempt to accommodate them through genre expectations. They weren't a component of the original story-centered definition.
- E
A “chronological sequence of events” is explicitly included. This isn't the feature that sets the musicals apart.
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