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Craft and Structure practice question

The poet's notebooks show that the famous final line was not written first, as she later claimed, but last. Eleven drafts end differently, and the line appears only in the twelfth. Her account of the poem arriving whole, in a single sitting, was a story she told for forty years. The notebooks suggest it was a story she came to believe.

Which choice best describes the function of the last sentence in the text as a whole?

  1. A. It offers a charitable explanation for the gap between the poet's account and the evidence.Correct
  2. B. It accuses the poet of deliberate deception.
  3. C. It describes the contents of the twelfth draft.
  4. D. It argues that the notebooks are unreliable.

Answer: A. It offers a charitable explanation for the gap between the poet's account and the evidence.

Not a lie, a belief.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It accuses the poet of deliberate deception.
'Came to believe' is the opposite of deliberate deception.
C. It describes the contents of the twelfth draft.
The draft is not described.
D. It argues that the notebooks are unreliable.
The notebooks are treated as evidence.

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