Craft and StructureVery hardOverall structure: claim, counter-evidence, refined claim
Craft and Structure practice question
Guidebooks call the abbey 'ruined by Henry VIII'. The king's commissioners did strip its roof in 1539. But the walls stood for another two centuries, and the accounts of the local manor show its tenants carting away the stone, year after year, to build barns. Henry unroofed the abbey; the neighbours took it down.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
- A. It states the received account, presents evidence that complicates it, and ends with a corrected division of responsibility.Correct
- B. It argues that the abbey should be rebuilt.
- C. It describes the abbey's architecture.
- D. It lists the barns built from the stone.
Answer: A. It states the received account, presents evidence that complicates it, and ends with a corrected division of responsibility.
Received account, the manor's records, and a sharper verdict.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It argues that the abbey should be rebuilt.
- No such argument.
- C. It describes the abbey's architecture.
- Architecture is not described.
- D. It lists the barns built from the stone.
- Barns are mentioned generally.
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