#7 - Must Be True, Author’s Perspective

[tkt25!]

Hello!

I read all of the threads posted above. I chose B for this question. I noticed the Administrator and another Powerscore instructor wrote conflicting answers as to why B is incorrect. Admin said that the passage DID discuss how language was familiar to local audiences, but George George said the passage DID NOT state this, and that is what makes B incorrect. Also, there seem to be conflicting views on whether the passage mentions "unique" or uniqueness or not, and the passage does...I am now having trouble determining what makes B incorrect. If someone could please in detail elaborate as to why B is incorrect that would be very helpful. Thank you

UPDATE: Is B incorrect as 1) we don't actually compare the corrido to other ballad forms? 2) The corrido's uniqueness lies in the despedida NOT because the language it uses is familiar to mainly local audiences? (even though we know that the corrido does indeed use language and themes (imagery) that is familiar to local audiences but that is not the reason that it makes it unique)!

Please let me know if my understanding of why B is incorrect is right! Thank youuu

[Jeff Wren]

Hi tkt,

First, while I can't speak for the other PowerScore staff, my reading/interpretation of the Administrator's answer and George's answer is that they are not actually in conflict. You may want to go back and read each answer more closely.

Both answers are stating that the corrido's uniqueness is not because of its use of familiar language.

The Administrator wrote:

"It is entirely possible that the corrido is not unique in its use of familiar linguistic conventions" (my emphasis).

This does not mean that the corrido is not unique at all, just that it may not be unique in this particular feature of familiar linguistic conventions.

George wrote:

"especially when they link together two things that were stated, but distort the relationship between them."

The relationship between these two things is distorted in Answer B because the uniqueness is not due to the familiar language (as far as we know from the passage).

To be clear, the passage does mention the "corrido's uniqueness" (line 52) and it mentions the corrido's "heavy reliance on familiar linguistic and thematic conventions" (lines 18-19). However, most of the discussion on the corrido's familiarity refers to the images rather than the language. Corridos often use "everyday images that are familiar to the song's listeners" (lines 26-27). This idea is mentioned again at the end of paragraph two and the beginning of paragraph three. "Such imagery, highly conventional and readily recognizable to corrido listeners" (lines 35-37) and "the corrido is composed not only of familiar images" (lines 29-40).

The passage does state that the despedida is "perhaps the clearest marker of the corrido's uniqueness" (lines 51-52), so the despedida is arguably the best example of what makes the corrido unique, but not necessarily the only thing that makes it unique. The passage doesn't list what other features make the corrido unique, but given how much familiar imagery was discussed, that may be one of the features even more important than the familiar language. Either way, this is enough to eliminate Answer B because no where does the passage indicate that the familiar language is what makes the corrido unique.