Craft and StructureVery hardOverall structure: a claim tested and refined
Craft and Structure practice question
It is often said that cities are noisier than the countryside. Sound meters tell a more complicated story: a city street at night is quieter than a rookery at dawn, and a wheat field in August is louder than a library. What differs is not the volume but the kind of sound — mechanical in one, living in the other — and it is the kind, not the level, that people find wearing.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
- A. It states a common claim, complicates it with measurements, and then reframes the difference in terms of kind rather than degree.Correct
- B. It argues that the countryside is noisier than cities.
- C. It lists the loudest places in the countryside.
- D. It explains how sound meters work.
Answer: A. It states a common claim, complicates it with measurements, and then reframes the difference in terms of kind rather than degree.
Claim, complication, reframing.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It argues that the countryside is noisier than cities.
- The passage says the difference is not in volume.
- C. It lists the loudest places in the countryside.
- Two examples, not a list of loudest places.
- D. It explains how sound meters work.
- No explanation of the instruments.
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