PT135.S3.P1.Q2

PrepTest 135 - Section 3 - Passage 1 - Question 2

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P1

In the 1980s there was a proliferation of poetry collections, short stories, and novels published by women of Latin American descent in the United States. ██ ███ ███ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ █████ ██ ████ ██████ ████████ ███ ██████████████ ████ ████ ████ ██████████ ████ ███ ███████████ ██ █████ ███████ ████████████████ ████████████ ██████ ██ ███ ███ ██████ ██ ███ █████ █████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ███████ ███████ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██████ ███████ ███ ███████ ████████ ███ ██████████████ █████████ ██ ██████ ██████████

Intro topic · Three notable autobiographical collections by U.S. Latina authors
Expect the main point to relate to why these three collections are significant
P2

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Significance of collections · They cross boundaries between languages, identities, and rhetorical styles
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Significance of first collection · Borderlands/La Frontera
Blends personal and cultural history using narrative and poetry
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Significance of second collection · Loving in the War Years
Blends genres, non-chronological sequence of events
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Critic's perspective · Non-chronological writing sets women's autobiographies apart from men's
It's unclear if this critic thinks men's autobiographies never use non-chronological writing, but at the very least, it's not the traditional approach
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Significance of third collection · Getting Home Alive
Combines mother's and daughter's perspectives
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Author's perspective · These complex narrative styles convey complex identities
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Main point · These three collections by U.S. Latina authors use innovative methods to express complex, marginalized identities
Passage Style
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the importance of █████████████ ████████ ██ █████ ████████ ████████ █████

This isn’t stated as a reason the Latina authors structured their autobiographies in the way they did. Also, one author didn’t treat chronology as important.

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those authors' stated █████████ ██ ████████ ███████ ████████████ ██████

This isn’t stated as a reason the Latina authors structured their autobiographies in the way they did. The author never mentions the desire to avoid nonnarrative genres.

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those authors' preference ██ █████ █████ █████████ ██████████

This isn’t stated as a reason the Latina authors structured their autobiographies in the way they did. The author never mentions the desire to avoid political expression.

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d

the complexities of ████████ █████████ █████ ██ █████ ███████

The author states that innovative structural decisions were done “to express the complexities inherent in the formation of their identities.”

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e

those authors' judgment ████ ██████ ██████ ███ ██ █ █████████ ██████

This isn’t stated as a reason the Latina authors structured their autobiographies in the way they did. The author never mentions the view that poetry shouldn’t be treated as a narrative medium.

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