Q5

[zee.brad]

I chose ans choice B, but the right ans should be A, I can see why A is right, but B isn't right, is it because Americanized English is required not permitted?

[ohthatpatrick]

As you implied, line 41 is how we justify (A). How would we support (B)? When does the passage discuss Americanized English?

Line 36 says "No place existed for the rough-and-ready Americanized English she heard in the streets".

So that line means that Americanized English was NOT permitted.

Hope this helps.

[Cavetisy]

Would C) be inferred as he incorrect answer in paragraph two?

Paragraph two states PW's potential, namely due to her experience in "themes from (African oral) fold art," and this wasn't permitted by the English guidelines in poetry.

[ohthatpatrick]

Essentially, we could anticipate that this question will boil down to

1 correct choice - a trait that typifies the standards of 18th century poetry .. the formal, stuffy "closed system" (line 34-35)
vs.
4 incorrect choices - traits that relate to the African American experience

The author's main point was wishing that Wheatley had found a way to get more of her African American experience into the otherwise formal poetry she was writing.

(A) correct. lines 40-41, "her voice and feelings had to be generalized". Lines 31-36 contain great keywords that alert us to where the author will begin discussing the constraints of 18th century English poetry.

(B) opposite. lines 36-37 "no place existed for Americanized English"

(C) unsupported. the THEMES from folk art don't seem to be mentioned. But either way, 'folk art' is code word for her African American experience.

(D) unsupported. we never really mention "causal talk", but it seems like code for "spoken vs. literary English" (line 6), in which case this is the opposite of 18th century formal English.

(E) opposite.