Reading Vocab Questions

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<p>Hello! I have a few reading questions:</p>

<p>That Virginia Woolf’s criticism of prose is more astute than her criticism of poetry is most likely due to her ability, as a novelist and essayist, to approach prose as one of its _____. </p>

<p>A) Novices
B) Neighbors
C) Interpreters
D) Practitioners
E) Detractors </p>

<p>(I skipped this one)</p>

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<p>Sometimes fiction is marred by departures from the main narrative, but Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is instead _____ by its _____, which add levels of meaning to the principal story.</p>

<p>A) enhanced… digressions (correct)
B) harmed… excursions
C) adorned… melodramas
D) strengthened… criticisms
E) unaffected… swervings (answer I chose)</p>

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<p>Although English philosopher Anne Conway was _______ by her seventeenth century contemporaries, she has through oversight been nearly ____ in recent times. </p>

<p>A)revered… forgotten
B) censured… venerated
C) abandoned… ignored
D) imitated… emulated
E) pardoned… absolved</p>

<p>Immediately eliminated C, D, and E
A or B?</p>

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<p>1- E
Prose= common speech. She is well-read, therefore she is a detractor of prose.</p>

<p>2- A
marred= antonym of enhanced
departures= digressions</p>

<p>3- A
Keyword is oversight (negative connotation)</p>

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<p>Answers - C, A, A.</p>

<p>First one, I was confused between C and D, but the point is that she is more skilled, or astute in prose than poetry, therefore her criticism of prose is likely to be more intense and elaborate. I chose interpreter because you cannot literally “practice” prose, you can interpret it given the prose writing.</p>

<p>Next one is definetly a, because digression means straying away from main topic and its stated in the question “departures from the main narrative”, departure meaning straying away from the main narrative.</p>

<p>Last one is A because we need opposites, and first she was revered or respected, but now she is forgotten.</p>

<p>EDIT: First one can also be E, its a little ambiguous. I would choose E for the best option.</p>