Craft and StructureVery hardWord meaning from context
Craft and Structure practice question
Though the author's early novels were ____ — dense with allusion and built on shifting timelines — her later work became almost austere in its simplicity.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- A. intricateCorrect
- B. spare
- C. accessible
- D. conventional
Answer: A. intricate
The dashes define the blank ('dense with allusion', 'shifting timelines') and 'though' contrasts it with later 'simplicity'. Complex, elaborately constructed work is 'intricate'.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. spare
- 'Spare' means plain and minimal — that describes the LATER work, which the sentence contrasts with the early novels.
- C. accessible
- 'Accessible' means easy to approach. Dense allusion and shifting timelines make a book harder, not easier.
- D. conventional
- 'Conventional' means ordinary in form. Shifting timelines are an unconventional structure.
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