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Craft and StructureVery hardStructure of a passage revising a first impression

Craft and Structure practice question

At first the diary seems dull: entries of weather, prices, and visitors, in a cramped hand. Read across a year, though, a pattern appears. The visitors' names recur on the days before each price rise, and the weather notes stop entirely for the month the writer's brother was in prison. The dullness was a cover; the diarist was recording what she could not say.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

  1. A. It presents an initial impression, describes what closer reading reveals, and revises the impression accordingly.Correct
  2. B. It summarises the diary's entries in chronological order.
  3. C. It argues that diaries are unreliable sources.
  4. D. It describes the diarist's family in detail.

Answer: A. It presents an initial impression, describes what closer reading reveals, and revises the impression accordingly.

Dull at first, telling on closer reading.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It summarises the diary's entries in chronological order.
No chronology of entries.
C. It argues that diaries are unreliable sources.
The diary is treated as revealing.
D. It describes the diarist's family in detail.
The brother is one detail.

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