<p>This is an excerpt from a long passage question; had I posted the whole thing, it probably would’ve been too much. The passage in general talks about “how Romance novels focus on the heroic dimensions of life”, Romantic writers giving their works “mythic qualities”. </p>
<p>“Clotel, a novel written in 1853 by William Wells Brown, is an early example from this romantic tradition. Clotel’s heroes are idealized, fighting slavery through superhuman action, and are used to convey a complex political message. For Brown, the Black man or woman was destined to move toward spiritual perfection, but was being blocked by the dehumanizing effects of slavery. The conflict in Clotel is both an on going political one, between slaves and their owners, and a wider moral conflictbetween good and evil; the story is placed in both a historical context and the larger context of human ethical progress. The resolution is satisfyingly hopefula victory over obstacles.”</p>
<p>It can be inferred from the passage that by describing the characters in Brown’s Clotel as “idealized”(line 14), the author means that they
(A) believe themselves to be more virtuous than they actually are
(B) are not particularly realistic butrepresent attitudes admired by Brown
(C) represent the kind of person Brown would have liked to be
(D) are as close to being perfectly described as fictional characters can be
(E) are blind to the real problems that prevent them from succeeding</p>
<p>This is the next paragraph:
More than a hundred years after Brownwrote, Black writers like Toni Morrison and David Bradley work in a very different historical context. Yet one of the major themes for these two writers, the investigation of relationships between North American and African culture, is as deeply historical as Brown’s concern with slavery. Both Morrison and Bradley address the close relationships between myth and history by writing of people who undertake the archetypal quest for selfhood. Their characters arecompelled to confront not only their own personal histories, but their cultural histories as well. Both of these writers also explore this (39) cultural history stylistically, by experimenting with rhetorical devices traditionally identified with both African and Western experience, including the oral narrative and the mythological theme of the journey to the home of one’s ancestors.</p>
<p>By stating that Morrison and Bradley explore history “stylistically” (line 39), the author means that they
(A) believe that style is the most important element in their fiction
(B) use a variety of fashionable techniques
(C) researched their own families before writing about their characters’ ancestors
(D) use traditional forms of expression in writing current fiction
(E) use words and phrases from ancient languages to make their novels more authentic</p>
<p>Can you please give me the correct answers, their explanations, and how to avoid getting these questions wrong in the future? thx</p>