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Can someone help explain why D is incorrect? I eliminated A, B, and C but ended up choosing D over E. Thank you!
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Re: Q7
Good question. Apologies for our very slow reply. A few questions slipped by us recently.
Choice (D) is a tempting answer because it describes important points that are made in the passage. But it doesn't capture the main point as well as well as (E) does, and this question is specifically asking about the main point of the passage.
Choice (D) resembles the main ideas presented in the second paragraph and parts of the third paragraph. But these ideas are being used to support lines 50-57. These final lines present the main point. They present a more general opinion about Bordwell's approach to categorizing films: the author of the passage disagrees with Bordwell's approach. Choice (E) focuses more on Bordwell's approach, not just the fact that certain films don't fit Bordwell's definition of the classical style.
Looking even more closely ad choice (D), also notice how it is only about Busby Berkeley's films. One of Berkeley's films is used as an example in the passage, but the passage is more broadly about musicals of the 1930's, not just Berkeley's films. Notice how lines 40-45 refer to "films such as Berkeley’s," not just Berkeley’s films.
And finally, we don't know that Berkeley's films "cannot be considered examples of the classical style." The passage just states that one of these films does not match Bordwell's definition of the classical style.
Choice (D) is a tempting answer because it describes important points that are made in the passage. But it doesn't capture the main point as well as well as (E) does, and this question is specifically asking about the main point of the passage.
Choice (D) resembles the main ideas presented in the second paragraph and parts of the third paragraph. But these ideas are being used to support lines 50-57. These final lines present the main point. They present a more general opinion about Bordwell's approach to categorizing films: the author of the passage disagrees with Bordwell's approach. Choice (E) focuses more on Bordwell's approach, not just the fact that certain films don't fit Bordwell's definition of the classical style.
Looking even more closely ad choice (D), also notice how it is only about Busby Berkeley's films. One of Berkeley's films is used as an example in the passage, but the passage is more broadly about musicals of the 1930's, not just Berkeley's films. Notice how lines 40-45 refer to "films such as Berkeley’s," not just Berkeley’s films.
And finally, we don't know that Berkeley's films "cannot be considered examples of the classical style." The passage just states that one of these films does not match Bordwell's definition of the classical style.
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