LSAT 65, Reading Comprehension, Q1, LSATHacks

RC Question 1 Explanation, by LSATHacks

DISCUSSION: For main point questions, the right answer must be true, and cover the main points of the passage.

You can first eliminate answers that aren’t true.

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1. This isn’t even true, necessarily. The first paragraph mentioned poetry and fiction, then autobiographies. But the author didn’t say that the same authors wrote poetry/fiction and autobiographies.
2. CORRECT. This is a weak answer, but it’s the best one. I say it’s weak because the author claimed that the Latina authors revolutionized autobiography (line 52), while this answer doesn’t compliment the Latinas’ achievements.
    
   Nonetheless, this answer does adequately summarize how the Latina authors experimented to find an innovative way to tell their stories.
3. This answer isn’t even true. The passage doesn’t mention traditional Latina autobiography. 
4. The passage’s point wasn’t that nonfictional narrative can be combined with other genres. We don’t even know if Latinas were the first to mix genres. The author’s idea is specific: these Latina authors revolutionized autobiography. Other authors may have already mixed styles in other non-fiction genres. 
5. A critic is only mentioned on line 30. They talk about gender differences, but not ethnic/cultural differences. This is hardly the main point.

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