Craft and StructureVery hardFunction of the last sentence about a diary's one full year
Craft and Structure practice question
The diary covers forty years in three hundred pages. Whole years pass in a line. Then 1912 fills sixty pages, day by day, hour by hour in places, with a care the diarist gave to nothing before or after. Whatever happened that year, she wanted it remembered, and she never once says what it was.
Which choice best describes the function of the final sentence in the text as a whole?
- A. It draws out the tension between the diarist's evident purpose and her silence about its cause.Correct
- B. It explains what happened in 1912.
- C. It criticises the diarist for writing too little.
- D. It summarises the diary's forty years.
Answer: A. It draws out the tension between the diarist's evident purpose and her silence about its cause.
She wanted it remembered, and never said what.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It explains what happened in 1912.
- The cause is never given.
- C. It criticises the diarist for writing too little.
- No criticism.
- D. It summarises the diary's forty years.
- The forty years are in the first sentence.
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