I get why D is right, but I have a difficult time eliminating C when it seems like changes in social customs refers to stuff like the increasing educational attainment levels of women, which did in fact change literary techniques. For example, the local colorists responded to those changes in social customs by increasingly romanticizing the past in their work.
i was really stuck in between d and c but what stood out to me was that I was looking for what generalization best summarized what the new women were doing, d sounded more close to it for me, d had "fictional" so i went with it
I disagree with Kevin Lin's analysis specifically on choice C. It's not the correct choice, but unless you can correctly diagnose why, you miss out on a lesson here. It's wrong because it's an absolute causal claim about a passage that describes a historical relationship without making a causal claim. Even if the text was more explicit about the relationship between the social changes and the New Women, C would be the wrong answer choice. It is, however, correct that there is textual evidence for social changes relating to both the LC and NW styles, so if that was what led you to C, good for you! Just pay attention to the strength of the inference here, it’s way too strong to say the passage discussed an inevitable causal relationship. The social changes around the freedom of women to enter education, professions, and politics are context for the entire passage, for Chopin, the sentimental realists, LC, and the NW. P1, the topic paragraph, sets the stage PRIOR, with sentimental novels with content = courtship and marriage, style = elevated romantic language. Then in the open to P2, we get, not a description of LC, but the new context that set the stage for the subsequent fiction, WOMEN ARE NEW. They are no longer just relegated to courtship and marriage. They now have the freedom to enter higher education, the professions, and politics. LC are described as feeling free to enter that world as artists, describe it as anthropologists, but then mythologize the limited world of marriage, courtship, and domesticity, suggesting a content that looks backward to the prior world described in P1. Chopin is also oriented to this change, unlike LC, who end up looking back with nostalgia to the old women, Chopin looks forward. The text frames this as rejecting the nostalgia towards the state prior to social change, and instead looking forward to the New Woman and what? freedom and innovation, which is implicitly, the social change. The New Women didn’t just describe it as an anthropologist, they embraced it in both form and content. I will admit, though, that because the entire passage is framed as OLD social conditions of WOMEN, large changes in their freedom leading to NEW social conditions for WOMEN, and the name of the literary style is SAME OLD WOMEN NOTHING TO SEE HERE, it’s probably way too big of a leap to think there is an inference that the style had something to do with NEW WOMEN. So I’ll give him that ;)
If you found that the thread of social change relating to the literary development all the way through the passage, you should congratulate yourself on spotting a theme in this spotlight passage that is not just restricted to one group, but if you chose C as the answer, think about how to identify when an answer choice makes a strong causal claim and when a passage doesn’t. The passage is exploring the changes and their relationships to each other, not arguing about a cause.
doesn't the word neglected imply that what they started writing about was always there in the past and they're just now getting around to exploring it? this is why C seemed like a better answer choice to me over D
quick question: if my blind review isn't correct in comparison with the video's analyzation of each answer, but I still got the question right, is there anything specific i should be worried about? Or if I keep studying, the right reasoning will come to me?
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C is wrong for the second reason he says, not the first; he has the causality backwards. C says nothing about writing CAUSING social change, it says social change CAUSES changes in writing style. We do have social change, its talked about in the second paragraph with the LC's commenting on how the roles of women is changing. Still wrong, because of inevitably is way too strong of a word, but I thought I would pop in to say that the logic he uses is 100% wrong.
I chose D becuase the New Women wanted to talk about the unconscious minds of women and D says "speak of new aspects of life no one wrote about before" which in my eyes says talk about unconscious minds
#feedback I think Kevin’s reason for eliminating C was a bit hasty. He got caught up in thinking that they effected social changes when in fact it was saying that social change effected the way they write. Which I think is an apt characterization of the movement. I think the more interesting point of disagreement is the over broad generalization of said effect to all forms of social change and all forms of literature, as well as the use of the word inevitably.
Yes I agree with you and I thought the same thing when I was down to choice C and D. There was some discussion about changes in women culture in the second paragraph, which made me have to take a deeper look at choice C. I like that you brought up the "over broad generalization of said effect to all forms of social change and all forms of literature". I was still having trouble eliminating C even after I chose D so looking at it this way helped me a lot. Thank you! What ultimately made me eliminate C was the point D made about describing reality in ways that were not done previously as this has a stronger holding in the text which considering this the question asked for the most supported generalization it made more sense to choose D. For C you had to stretch the text a bit more to make it fit. It was really difficult choosing between the two as I do believe C is somewhat supported but not as strongly as D. It's no wonder this question was characterized as max difficult,
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@NemoPropheta 100% he has the causality backwards. Its still wrong, just not because of the causality direction.
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Give me this question type any day pls! The confidence boost I needed to keep going
Just clicked that I actually read The Awakening by Kate Chopin in my highschool AP Literature class. It was fire, Kevin should actually read it.
I get why D is right, but I have a difficult time eliminating C when it seems like changes in social customs refers to stuff like the increasing educational attainment levels of women, which did in fact change literary techniques. For example, the local colorists responded to those changes in social customs by increasingly romanticizing the past in their work.
i am eatinggg these
i was really stuck in between d and c but what stood out to me was that I was looking for what generalization best summarized what the new women were doing, d sounded more close to it for me, d had "fictional" so i went with it
This passage is kicking my ass
I disagree with Kevin Lin's analysis specifically on choice C. It's not the correct choice, but unless you can correctly diagnose why, you miss out on a lesson here. It's wrong because it's an absolute causal claim about a passage that describes a historical relationship without making a causal claim. Even if the text was more explicit about the relationship between the social changes and the New Women, C would be the wrong answer choice. It is, however, correct that there is textual evidence for social changes relating to both the LC and NW styles, so if that was what led you to C, good for you! Just pay attention to the strength of the inference here, it’s way too strong to say the passage discussed an inevitable causal relationship. The social changes around the freedom of women to enter education, professions, and politics are context for the entire passage, for Chopin, the sentimental realists, LC, and the NW. P1, the topic paragraph, sets the stage PRIOR, with sentimental novels with content = courtship and marriage, style = elevated romantic language. Then in the open to P2, we get, not a description of LC, but the new context that set the stage for the subsequent fiction, WOMEN ARE NEW. They are no longer just relegated to courtship and marriage. They now have the freedom to enter higher education, the professions, and politics. LC are described as feeling free to enter that world as artists, describe it as anthropologists, but then mythologize the limited world of marriage, courtship, and domesticity, suggesting a content that looks backward to the prior world described in P1. Chopin is also oriented to this change, unlike LC, who end up looking back with nostalgia to the old women, Chopin looks forward. The text frames this as rejecting the nostalgia towards the state prior to social change, and instead looking forward to the New Woman and what? freedom and innovation, which is implicitly, the social change. The New Women didn’t just describe it as an anthropologist, they embraced it in both form and content. I will admit, though, that because the entire passage is framed as OLD social conditions of WOMEN, large changes in their freedom leading to NEW social conditions for WOMEN, and the name of the literary style is SAME OLD WOMEN NOTHING TO SEE HERE, it’s probably way too big of a leap to think there is an inference that the style had something to do with NEW WOMEN. So I’ll give him that ;)
If you found that the thread of social change relating to the literary development all the way through the passage, you should congratulate yourself on spotting a theme in this spotlight passage that is not just restricted to one group, but if you chose C as the answer, think about how to identify when an answer choice makes a strong causal claim and when a passage doesn’t. The passage is exploring the changes and their relationships to each other, not arguing about a cause.
Praying on test day that I get 3 RC sections and one LR section
@kyorofan20 Unfortunately I believe the only 2 combinations possible are:
2 LR/2 RC or 3LR/1RC
@kyorofan20 that could never happen, but it's a nice thought lol
doesn't the word neglected imply that what they started writing about was always there in the past and they're just now getting around to exploring it? this is why C seemed like a better answer choice to me over D
feminist political theory in college is paying off lol
quick question: if my blind review isn't correct in comparison with the video's analyzation of each answer, but I still got the question right, is there anything specific i should be worried about? Or if I keep studying, the right reasoning will come to me?
C is wrong for the second reason he says, not the first; he has the causality backwards. C says nothing about writing CAUSING social change, it says social change CAUSES changes in writing style. We do have social change, its talked about in the second paragraph with the LC's commenting on how the roles of women is changing. Still wrong, because of inevitably is way too strong of a word, but I thought I would pop in to say that the logic he uses is 100% wrong.
WE ARE SO BACK????? I TOOK A FEW DAYS BREAK AND CAME BACK TO GET THIS RIGHT LETS GOOOOO PARTY PEOPLE
#fuckRC
I was down to C and D.....but I went with D because there is nothing about social change in the paragraph about the New Women
I used the exact same line of reasoning lol
I chose D becuase the New Women wanted to talk about the unconscious minds of women and D says "speak of new aspects of life no one wrote about before" which in my eyes says talk about unconscious minds
#feedback I think Kevin’s reason for eliminating C was a bit hasty. He got caught up in thinking that they effected social changes when in fact it was saying that social change effected the way they write. Which I think is an apt characterization of the movement. I think the more interesting point of disagreement is the over broad generalization of said effect to all forms of social change and all forms of literature, as well as the use of the word inevitably.
Yes I agree with you and I thought the same thing when I was down to choice C and D. There was some discussion about changes in women culture in the second paragraph, which made me have to take a deeper look at choice C. I like that you brought up the "over broad generalization of said effect to all forms of social change and all forms of literature". I was still having trouble eliminating C even after I chose D so looking at it this way helped me a lot. Thank you! What ultimately made me eliminate C was the point D made about describing reality in ways that were not done previously as this has a stronger holding in the text which considering this the question asked for the most supported generalization it made more sense to choose D. For C you had to stretch the text a bit more to make it fit. It was really difficult choosing between the two as I do believe C is somewhat supported but not as strongly as D. It's no wonder this question was characterized as max difficult,
@NemoPropheta 100% he has the causality backwards. Its still wrong, just not because of the causality direction.
i hate this passage.
I am destroying these so quickly LFG
Ughhh but fantasy and parables are not reality so I changed my answer from D last minute.
Had D changed it to C, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :,)
Got the last three wrong, but this one I GOT IT RIGHTTTTT!!!
WOOOOO feels so good getting a highest-difficulty question right
The translation for D was too hectic
I hate being woman LOLLLLL