Unlike both sentimental novels and L.C.'s short stories, N.W. explores fantasy; parable; different worlds; and uses impressionistic methods to explore female consciousness
Used impressionistic methods to render the female consciousness.
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
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Question Type
Implied
Purpose of passage
The purpose of this Spotlight passage is to share what the author finds interesting or noteworthy about Chopin: the literary journey she took and the influences she drew on that resulted in the writing style she displayed in The Awakening.
The passage follows Chopin’s artistic development as a writer and how it was influenced by the changes that the local colorists and the New Women brought to 19th-century women’s fiction.
The author doesn’t suggest that Chopin is a typical example. If anything, he seems to suggest that she’s not typical of writers at the time; she wasn’t totally in line with the local colorists, and she was even more impressionistic than the New Women.
This claim isn’t made anywhere, so the passage can’t be meant to counter it. And anyway, the passage does show that Chopin’s fiction was influenced by external social circumstances: it was influenced by women’s literary movements underway at the time.
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The author doesn’t comment on the “value” of anyone’s novels. He just explains how Chopin’s writing style was influenced by other writers.
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Difficulty
92% of people who answer get this correct
This is a slightly challenging question.
It is somewhat easier than other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%128
138
75%148
Analysis
Implied
Implied
Stems asking us to infer an idea implied by the claims in the passage (as opposed to identifying an idea that appears explicitly). Similar to most strongly supported questions in LR.
Stems that ask us to describe the overall purpose of the passage. Similar to main point questions, but often call for more abstract language in the answer choices (e.g. "to criticize a popular theory").
Passages that highlight a person, issue, or historical event or development. These passages often focus on why that thing is significant, distinctive, or interesting.
