PT135.S3.P1.Q3

PrepTest 135 - Section 3 - Passage 1 - Question 3

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Intro topic · Three notable autobiographical collections by U.S. Latina authors
Expect the main point to relate to why these three collections are significant
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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
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The author's discussion of Getting ████ █████ ██████ █████████ ██

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The author’s purpose isn’t to distinguish one kind of autiobiography from others. The author treats the autobiographies together as examples of the level of innovation. The purpose isn’t to draw distinctions between the three Latina autobiographies, but rather, between the three autobiographies and typical autobiographies. It’s also not clear that the author would classify the three Latina autobiographies as being different “types.”

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explain how certain ██████ ███████████████ ███████ ███████ ███████ ███ █████ ██ █████ █████

The author discusses Getting Home Alive as an example of how a Latina autobiographer used an innovative structure. This work “departs even further from the conventions typical of autobiography,” which helps illustrate the level of structural innovation.

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The author’s purpose isn’t show that multiple voices are common in Latina autobiographies. In fact we don’t know whether they’re common; the author never says they are.

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show why readers ████ ██████████ █████████████ ███████ ███████████████ ██ ██████ ███████

The author discusses Getting Home Alive as an example of how a Latina autobiographer used an innovative structure. Although the author does acknowledge that this structure can be confusing, the purpose of mentioning the work isn’t to illustrate readers’ difficulty in understanding; it’s to show the level of structural innovation.

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illustrate the extent ██ ███████ ██████ ████████████████ ███████████████ ████ ████ ███ █████████

The author discusses Getting Home Alive as an example of how a Latina autobiographer used an innovative structure. This work “departs even further from the conventions typical of autobiography,” which helps illustrate the level of structural innovation.

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