<li>I usually follow the passage in order of the questions(When I get to the line reference, I stop, answer, then move through the passage till the next line reference). I don’t read the entire passage and then go back. However, for the purpose questions, is it good to read the passage as a whole instead of piece(because the emphasis that some of the questions give you on the many topics of a passage might influence you). Is it also good to read the passage very quickly at the beginning to get a general idea, and then go back through?</li>
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<p>All right, this question here really got to me and I don’t know who to follow. I will give the prompt, paragraph, and the question. </p>
<p>In this selection from a 1995 work, the author discusses the role of photography in her own family and in African American culture as a whole</p>
<p>“Drawing from the past, from those walls of images I grew up with, I Gather snapshots and lay hte out to see what narratives the images tell, what they say without words. I Search these images to see if there are imprints waiting to be seen, recognized, and read. Together, a Black male friend and I lay out the snapshots of his boyhood to see when he began to lose a certain openness, to discern at what age he began to shut down, to close himself away. Through tehse images, my friend hopes to find a way back to the self he once was. We are awed by what our snapshots reveal, what they enable us to remember”</p>
<li>The friend’s goal in examining snapshots(that paragraph) is most analgous(comparable) to which of the following?</li>
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<p>a)A young man visits his father’s childhood home in a distant city
b)A child intervies an older relative to record the family’s history
c)A woman reads her childhood diary in an aeffort to rekindle past goals and values
d)Parents take annual photographs of their children to document the children’s growth
e)A grandmother teaches her native language to her grandchildren</p>
<p>So I crossed out (e) because that doesn’t help in remembering your identity and who you are. (d) is tempting because it has photos that the children can look at years later to see who they were, but I still crossed it out. Now (c) says a woman reads her childhood diary in an effort to rekindle past goals and values. That seems to fit the answer, but the passage distinctly said, “to see what narratives the images tell, what they say without words.”. You know what? (c) is the answer. I know that ETS requires you to formulate answers based on what is said in the passage, but this is really ambigious. That was the first thing that I crossed off(first thing I started to look for before looking at answer choices). How are you supposed to tell that they’re looking for the overall purpose(reliving/discovering your previous identity) and that they’re ignoring the WITHOUT WORDS part? Isn’t that part of the purpose, to look at something else besides words(like a home)? I chose (a) reluctantly even though that wouldn’t help the man relive his previous life because it seems like the only one that could work since the passage said WITHOUT WORDS.</p>