Craft and StructureMediumChoosing a precise adjective in a literary text
Craft and Structure practice question
Critics marveled that the novelist built such emotional force from such ____ prose: sentences stripped of every unnecessary word, bare nouns, short declaratives, almost no adjectives at all.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- A. austereCorrect
- B. ornate
- C. lengthy
- D. obscure
Answer: A. austere
Prose 'stripped of every unnecessary word,' with bare nouns and short declaratives, is plain to the point of severity — 'austere.'
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. ornate
- 'Ornate' means elaborately decorated — the opposite of stripped-down.
- C. lengthy
- Short declarative sentences argue against 'lengthy.'
- D. obscure
- The style is described as clear and bare, not hard to understand.
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