Craft and StructureHardStructure of a passage tracing a change
Craft and Structure practice question
The lighthouse keeper's log for 1889 records the weather twice a day. In January the entries are terse. By March they run to a page each: the keeper had begun to describe the birds. By December the log is a bird diary, with the weather squeezed into the margin.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
- A. It traces how the contents of the log changed over the course of a year.Correct
- B. It compares the keeper with other keepers.
- C. It explains how lighthouses record weather.
- D. It lists the birds seen at the lighthouse.
Answer: A. It traces how the contents of the log changed over the course of a year.
January, March, December: a progression.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It compares the keeper with other keepers.
- No other keepers.
- C. It explains how lighthouses record weather.
- No method is explained.
- D. It lists the birds seen at the lighthouse.
- No birds are named.
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