#13 - Global Reference, Must Be True, Author's Perspective

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (E).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E): This is the correct answer choice.

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[ashpine17]

yeah can someone explain to me how would i be able to answer this question? i don't really get what we need judging by the question stem alone. can i answer 13 without passage b? i don't think so. isn't this just a more difficult way of saying which one of the following do the authors of passage a and b agree with?

A.) i took out A because i didn't know what Cather thought about her other novels especially because we never discussed novels versus narration in passage A
B.) i don't have any information about these critics from either passage
C.) maybe B would agree but idk about A?? is that why this is not the right answer?
D.) A didn't talk about the conventions of the realistic novel
E.) this was mentioned in the last paragraph of the first passage; i don't really understand what the thing not named means though

[Adam Tyson]

No, ashpine, this is not really asking what the two authors would agree with each other about. The question has to be framed from the point of view of Author A, regardless of what Author B thinks or feels or believes. So, we're looking for how Author A would react to something that Author B mentioned.

Your struggle with answer E suggests to me that you were too focused on Passage B and not enough on Passage A. Passage A discussed the "thing not named," and it refers to what Turgenev called the writer's secret knowledge. That's the part about knowing the underlying roots of a character's behavior, but only presenting the behavior itself.

So, Author A would likely say that the "bold, simple, and stylized in character" aspect of Cather's work is related to that secret knowledge. It's presenting the character's behavior, rather than discussing their inner thoughts and feelings and motivations, etc. that drove that behavior.

Author B might not say anything about "the thing not named" or any secret knowledge of the author, but that doesn't matter for the purpose of answering this question. It's just about Author A's viewpoint of the things mentioned in Passage B.