I have been examining my wrong answers from Steve Schwartz"'s Explanations for RC Prep Tests and I do not like his explanation for this question.
Can anyone explain to me why Answer D is not right? Is it because it uses the word Celebrate?
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Re: Q17
That's not the issue I see with answer choice (D). Lets start with the purpose of the paragraph. The 3rd paragraph is meant to help us see a more useful way of looking at Ellison's work (which blended in European influences). Jazz music also blended in European influences and the author is saying if Jazz music could do it, so could Ellison.
Answer choice (E) states this purpose well - to help better see the work of Ellison by looking at it Jazz as a model for how one could look at Ellison's work.
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(A) may be tempting if you only look at the last line of the paragraph, but this is not the purpose of the paragraph, which is to find a better model through a comparison to jazz music for looking at Ellison's work.
(B) states the wrong purpose, which is not to affirm their value but to use one discipline as offering a model by which one can look at Ellison's work.
(C) might be correct if Jazz were that source of Ellison's thematic content. However, it is not.
(D) reverses the direction. Instead it is to celebrate an artist by viewing it from the perspective of another artistic discipline. The paragraph does not celebrate one artistic discipline, but rather one artist.
Answer choice (E) states this purpose well - to help better see the work of Ellison by looking at it Jazz as a model for how one could look at Ellison's work.
Incorrect Answers
(A) may be tempting if you only look at the last line of the paragraph, but this is not the purpose of the paragraph, which is to find a better model through a comparison to jazz music for looking at Ellison's work.
(B) states the wrong purpose, which is not to affirm their value but to use one discipline as offering a model by which one can look at Ellison's work.
(C) might be correct if Jazz were that source of Ellison's thematic content. However, it is not.
(D) reverses the direction. Instead it is to celebrate an artist by viewing it from the perspective of another artistic discipline. The paragraph does not celebrate one artistic discipline, but rather one artist.
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