PrepTest 136 - Section 1 - Passage 3 - Question 19

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Context · Literature has often aspired to contain features of music

Spotlight · Toni Morrison's novel Jazz

First African American writer to use a musical genre as a structuring principle for an entire novel. Other writers had used musicians and music as themes and metaphors in writing.

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Connection to music in Morrison's novel · Content and form is like the music genre jazz

Narration shifts between third-person omniscience of narrator and first-person from key characters. These shifts show that narrative is cohesive, but acknowledges separate speakers by using quotation marks. Similar to the music jazz in way jazz band combines overall ensemble sound with solo performances.

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Similarities between music jazz and novel Jazz · Music jazz allows unique voices within cohesive composition

Morrison's novel achieves the same effect that Duke Ellington created in his jazz compositions.

Appreciation for Morrison's novel · Redefines possibilities of narrative point of view

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Purpose of passage

In a Spotlight passage, the author’s purpose is typically to tell us about the thing the author finds interesting, significant, or distinctive about the subject. Here, the author’s purpose is to tell us about the way in which Morrison’s novel Jazz uses the musical form of jazz as a structuring principle.

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The primary purpose doesn’t concern Morrison’s contributions to the art of the novel. The author writes about a specific novel and a certain interesting feature of that novel. Morrison’s broader contributions to the art of the novel are beyond the scope of this passage.

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The purpose isn’t to contrast Morrison’s work with the work of jazz musicians. The author’s purpose is to show how Morrison’s work uses jazz as a structuring principle. There’s a difference between highlighting a feature of Morrison’s work and contasting Morrison’s work with other artists.

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This best captures the primary purpose. The author wants to describe a particular aspect of one work (the way in which Jazz is structured analogously to the musical form of jazz) by a particular writer (Morrison).

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The author’s purpose isn’t to show that novels and jazz are similar. The purpose concerns a specific novel and how that particular novel is structured.

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The author doesn’t focus on “thematic” concerns of Morrison’s work; she focuses on the structure of that work. There’s a difference between the themes of a work and its structure.

PrepTest 136 - Section 1 - Passage 3 - Question 19

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