Q13

[peg_city]

Where does it say b? The second paragraph does talk about how the autobiographical narrative doesn't fit into certain conventions, however, nowhere does it say (that I can find anyway) that a slave narrative constitutes it's own genre.

Thanks

[bbirdwell]

Lines 25-28. "domestic novel... typical slave narrative... the two genres..."

If I say "Australian shepherds and Newfoundlands seem very different, but there are many similarities between the two breeds," you can infer that each of the two is a breed.

[andrewgong01]

Lines 25-28. "domestic novel... typical slave narrative... the two genres..."

If I say "Australian shepherds and Newfoundlands seem very different, but there are many similarities between the two breeds," you can infer that each of the two is a breed.

How do we support "no less" though? I was wary of choosing this and ended up with "A" because this read like a fake comparison and had degree issues whereas "A" was a lot easier to prove with just "some". To me B seems to imply the slave narrative and domestic novel are on the same level in terms of genre recognition ( or like "prestige") but we have no evidence of it in the text on the level of "equal" they were.

Admittedly, I did not find direct support in "A" but at the same time until you pointed out the earlier sentence where the author said "two genres" I did not see support for "B" either. Either way, this seems like an "easy" question if it was based of that lone sentence but tricky in that it was unexpected...

[ohthatpatrick]

The answer choice is not talking about prestige, it's just talking about whether the author would agree with the idea that both slave narrative and domestic novel each "constitute a genre".

Whether something constitutes a genre or not seems like a pretty absolute idea, not a relative one.

You'd either consider something a genre or you wouldn't. It sounds weird to say, "Both these things qualify as genres, but one of them qualifies more than the other."

In other words, (B) is really just saying, "Would the author agree that each of these things is a genre?"

To the extent that the "no less" feels like somewhat of a stretch, you have to remind yourself that the question stem asks for what is "MOST supported" and we have a line reference providing some decent support for (B).