Craft and StructureHardFunction of a detail in a literary passage
Craft and Structure practice question
The following text is from a novel.
Omar had kept every train ticket from the years he travelled to see her, and he found them now in a shoebox: four hundred small rectangles, each a Saturday. He did not need to count them. He knew.
Which choice best describes the function of the detail that Omar 'did not need to count them'?
- A. It suggests that Omar has carried the memory of every visit so closely that the tally is already part of him.Correct
- B. It shows that Omar is bad at arithmetic.
- C. It indicates that the tickets are worthless.
- D. It implies that Omar has forgotten the visits.
Answer: A. It suggests that Omar has carried the memory of every visit so closely that the tally is already part of him.
'He knew': the number was never in doubt because the visits were never forgotten.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It shows that Omar is bad at arithmetic.
- Not needing to count is about memory, not arithmetic.
- C. It indicates that the tickets are worthless.
- Keeping them for years shows their value to him.
- D. It implies that Omar has forgotten the visits.
- The opposite: he remembers exactly.
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