LSAT 88, Reading Comprehension, Q12, LSATHacks

RC Question 12 Explanation, by LSATHacks

DISCUSSION: We know that both authors feel lying is necessary in writing about things that happened in the past. They’d probably both disagree that readers expect to read the complete truth when they pick up an autobiography or a historical novel.

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1. Passage A agrees (Shakespeare’s distortion makes “drama of human lives meaningful and memorable”); Passage B agrees (“false memories have emotional power”.
2. Passage A agrees; Passage B doesn’t talk about this.
3. We don’t know about “most” writers.
4. We don’t know about authors’ “tendencies” over time.
5. CORRECT. Both Passages think that a degree of falsehood is permissible, and readers are aware of this.

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