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The following passages are adapted from critical essays on the American writer Willa Cather (1873–1947).

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Intro topic · Cather influenced by Turgenev

Turgenev's style involved showing emotions through details about characters' behavior and appearance. Writers are like psychologists. But, don't include unnecessary detail.

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Cather's style · Similar to Turgenev's

The "thing not named" is the feeling created by the text by not specifically named. Cather and Turgenev focused on fusing the physical world and actions with emotional reality, on establishing a mood.

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Cather's work · Should be viewed as narrative rather than novel

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Some critics · Cather's work too fragmented

Cather's style · Impressionistic, non-novelistic style

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Author’s perspective

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The correct answer will be something both authors would consider an example of Cather’s technique. If you’re using the Split Approach, start by eliminating answers that Passage A wouldn’t consider an example of Cather’s approach. Then, come back after Passage B and eliminate any remaining answers that Passage B wouldn’t consider an example of Cather’s approach.

Passage A indicates that Cather doesn’t depict characters’ emotions directly, but instead shows those emotions through details about appearance and action. In addition, Cather prefers “selection” and “simplification.”

Passage B indicates that Cather doesn’t use “direct psychological characterization, realistic treatment of time, causal plotting, logical closure.” Rather, she exhibits “unusual treatment of narrative time, unexpected focus, ambiguous conclusions, a preference for the bold, simple, and stylized in character as well as in landscape.”

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This involves descriptions to indicate a character’s wealth. But the details don’t indicate a character’s emotion. It’s also not clear how (A) involves “selection” or “simplification.” So Author A wouldn’t find this to be an example of Cather’s technique.

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This involves direct description of emotion. So Author A wouldn’t find this to be an example of Cather’s technique.

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This involves a description of appearance or action get show a character’s emotion. So this matches Passage A’s description of Cather’s technique. It also shows the lack of direct psychological characterization. So it matches Passage B’s description of Cather’s technique.

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This doesn’t involve a description of details of appearance/action to reveal a character’s emotion. In addition, there’s no indication from Passage A that Cather would summarize events in her work. It’s also not clear how this involves “selection” or “simplification.”

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This doesn’t involve a description of details of appearance/action to reveal a character’s emotion. In addition, there’s no indication from Passage A that Cather would try to illustrate broader themes using detailed narration of an event. It’s also not clear how this involves “selection” or “simplification.”

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