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Hi Dave,
For 22 I would have chosen E too, but they capitalized and italicized "Jazz" in the answer choices which made me want to look for how the novel inspired other writers as opposed to the musical genre. The passage distinguishes the two textually.
Can you please comment on this?
For 22
"But while many African American writers have used musicians and music as theme and metaphor in their writing"
Answer choice E specifically says "What characteristics of Jazz". Yet that part of the paragraph does not make it clear that jazz is included. I mean I easily see how it's an assumption we would make based on the passage, but is that an assumption we should be automatically making?
I see that the other answer choices are definitely wrong, but yet not seeing jazz specifically mentioned in that snip of the first paragraph, made it a bit confusing for me.
I think I'm not understanding your question, so I'll answer this way: Line 10 tells us that musicians and music are used in other African American writing, and we're told in the following sentences that Jazz also used music as a theme. Thus, we can answer (E) by appeal to the text.
For 16, in answer choice (C) it starts with "a description of a common claim"...I am having a hard time coming up with what that would look like. Should I just read it as "a common claim" ? or does it actually mean something different?
Yeah, I think it simply means that the author presents a common claim. So a sentence like "A majority of commenters have said that they find low-fat chocolate ice cream to be an unconvincing bit of devilry" would fit that description.