In the 1980s there was a proliferation of poetry collections, short stories, and novels published by women of Latin American descent in the United States. ██ ███ ███ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ █████ ██ ████ ██████ ████████ ███ ██████████████ ████ ████ ████ ██████████ ████ ███ ███████████ ██ █████ ███████ ████████████████ ████████████ ██████ ██ ███ ███ ████████ ███ █████ █████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ███████ ███████ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██████ ███████ ███ ███████ ████████ ███ ██████████████ █████████ ██ ██████ ██████████
Intro topic ·Three notable autobiographical collections by U.S. Latina authors
Expect the main point to relate to why these three collections are significant
Main point ·These three collections by U.S. Latina authors use innovative methods to express complex, marginalized identities
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
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Question Type
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
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.
a
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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.”
b
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.
c
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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.
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.
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.
Difficulty
92% of people who answer get this correct
This is a slightly challenging question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%125
137
75%148
Analysis
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
Art
Single position
Spotlight
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
5%
159
b
0%
156
c
2%
154
d
0%
154
e
92%
165
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