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by Acing LSAT Sun Feb 10, 2013 4:43 pm

A is the only one left after POE but the only clue I see to that idea is 45-49 and even that is very vauge.
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Re: Q4

by rinagoldfield Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:51 pm

Using a process of elimination is a great way to attack hard RC questions.

Support for (A) is scattered throughout the passage. The strongest support comes in lines 50-52: "Rather than forcing their personal histories to conform to existing generic parameters, these writers have revolutionized the genre of autobiography."

In other words, these writers refused to follow the traditional form for autobiographies. Instead, they integrated elements of other genres into their works. The passage describes how these autobiographers mixed genres in lines 18-21: "...the generically mixed structures of the works, which combine essays, sketches, short stories, poems, and journal entries..."

The passage offers further support for (A) when it describes the individual autobiographies. It tells us, for example, that Andzaldua "[juxtaposes] narrative sequences and poetry," that Moranga "departs from chronological ordering" and that the Moraleses "experiment with literary structure" (lines 25, 32, and 45). All of these examples indicate inter-genre mixing.

(B), (C), (D), and (E) are all unsupported. (C) is tempting, but while all of the authors "address the politics of multiple cultural identities," they don’t analyze the way their cultural heritages impact the content of their works.
 
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Re: Q4

by kky215 Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:45 am

I was debating between A,C,E and chose E.
I can see how A is definitely the correct answer, and I can also clearly see how C is not the right answer due to the subtlety of the wording 'analyze'.

But can you elaborate further on how E is unsupported?
It seems as though the author DOES explains the methodologies for each author.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Q4

by rinagoldfield Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:40 pm

Hi kky215

Thanks for your post.

Note that the question asks what is true of Latina autobiographies, not what is true the passage itself. So the issue is whether the autobiographers explain their own methodologies, not whether the author of the passage explains the autobiographers’ methodologies.

Perhaps Moraga explains her own methodology in her introduction (lines 26-30), but I don’t see any evidence that the other autobiographers self-analyze in this way.

Does that make sense?
 
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Re: Q4

by renata.gomez Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:51 am

I think further evidence of A as correct comes by looking at the discussion for each autobiography. The first and third (respectively) are characterized with "narrative seq. and poetry" and "the narrative and poems of each author". also, the second book is "a mixture of genres".

I hope this helps!
 
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Re: Q4

by andrewgong01 Sun Nov 05, 2017 2:56 am

Adding to the discussion ,
"A" is the weakest choice because it is the least specific (not sure if this is a valid metric for degree) and it seemed to fit well within the general passage.

For B through E for it to be true would we need to see explicit support where the author explicitly states that each of the 3 pieces all have these features? It just seemed harder to prove but the passage never contradicts B through E but it at the same time never directly stated B through E. In fact A is somewhat unstated too but seems heavily implied in the conclusion and introduction.
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Re: Q4

by ohthatpatrick Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:32 pm

Yeah, although there are a few annoying exceptions, you should be thinking that your job is to pick the answer you can best support with actual line references, especially since this question stem says that the correct answer was
INDICATED by the passage
vs.
SUGGESTED by the passage

I think 17-21 is good enough for (A).

If these works contain short stories and poems, those ingredients certainly don't seem to me like they belong in the genre of autobiography.

And line 12 explains that these collections are "innovative at many levels", adding support to the idea that finding "short stories / poems / etc" in these works is atypical, unusual.