Information and IdeasVery hardQuotation illustrating a subtle claim about tone
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic argues that in her memoir the author describes her years of poverty without self-pity, treating hardship as a matter of fact rather than of grievance.
Which quotation from the memoir most effectively illustrates the critic's claim?
- A. "We had one pair of boots between the three of us, so we went to school in turns, and the one at home did the reading aloud. It was a system. It worked."Correct
- B. "No one who has not been poor can imagine how we suffered, or how unfairly."
- C. "I have never forgiven the people who let us go without."
- D. "The winters were long, and I remember them with dread."
Answer: A. "We had one pair of boots between the three of us, so we went to school in turns, and the one at home did the reading aloud. It was a system. It worked."
Shared boots reported as 'a system' that 'worked': hardship as fact, no grievance.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. "No one who has not been poor can imagine how we suffered, or how unfairly."
- Suffering and unfairness: self-pity and grievance.
- C. "I have never forgiven the people who let us go without."
- Grievance.
- D. "The winters were long, and I remember them with dread."
- Dread is emotional, not matter-of-fact.
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