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Re: Q10
Thanks for posting, cyt5015!
As with any Inference question, we need to mine the passage for information in order to answer the question. Fortunately, the question gives us both a target and a line reference: the critics in line 23 - what do they believe? The text we must review only spans from line 23 to line 27, so it pays to read it carefully!
The answer choices all begin with the same text: "The mixture of literary genres in a single narrative...." Well, all we know about the critics is that they believe in this context, the mixture of slave narrative and domestic novel meant the former was overshadowed by the latter. The only answer choice this information directly supports is (E). Note the hedged language here - (E) only claims these critics believe the mixture will sometimes compromise the goals of one of the genres. Our critics have to believe that sometimes happens, since they believe it happened in this novel!
Working from wrong to right is extremely helpful on this question, so let's take a look at each of the wrong answers.
(A) This is what the author believes, not the critics! Line 30
(B) Too strong on two counts: "tends to" and "goals of both genres." We only know the critics believe a genre got compromised this time, we don't know that they thing it 'tends to' happen. And they believe the slave narrative was compromised, not the domestic novel aspect!
(C) "tends to" is still a problem, plus do we know that the domestic novel has the greater degree of realism?
(D) "tends to" is still a problem, plus do we know that the domestic novel has the greater degree of sentimentality?
Remember, when faced with an Inference question, always look to the specific part of the passage in question and determine what is directly and explicitly supported by the text!
Please let me know if this completely answers your question!
As with any Inference question, we need to mine the passage for information in order to answer the question. Fortunately, the question gives us both a target and a line reference: the critics in line 23 - what do they believe? The text we must review only spans from line 23 to line 27, so it pays to read it carefully!
The answer choices all begin with the same text: "The mixture of literary genres in a single narrative...." Well, all we know about the critics is that they believe in this context, the mixture of slave narrative and domestic novel meant the former was overshadowed by the latter. The only answer choice this information directly supports is (E). Note the hedged language here - (E) only claims these critics believe the mixture will sometimes compromise the goals of one of the genres. Our critics have to believe that sometimes happens, since they believe it happened in this novel!
Working from wrong to right is extremely helpful on this question, so let's take a look at each of the wrong answers.
(A) This is what the author believes, not the critics! Line 30
(B) Too strong on two counts: "tends to" and "goals of both genres." We only know the critics believe a genre got compromised this time, we don't know that they thing it 'tends to' happen. And they believe the slave narrative was compromised, not the domestic novel aspect!
(C) "tends to" is still a problem, plus do we know that the domestic novel has the greater degree of realism?
(D) "tends to" is still a problem, plus do we know that the domestic novel has the greater degree of sentimentality?
Remember, when faced with an Inference question, always look to the specific part of the passage in question and determine what is directly and explicitly supported by the text!
Please let me know if this completely answers your question!
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