Question 5 of 19 • Summer - English Language Arts 10 - CR
Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own.And one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confession and self-analysis that to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. Everything is against the likelihood that it will come from the writer's mind whole and entire. Generally material circumstances are against it. Dogs will bark; people will interrupt; money must be made; health will break down.
Answer
A
The parallel structure emphasizes the idea that creative work is much more challenging than other types of work.
B
The parallel structure emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations.
C
The understatement emphasizes the idea that creative work is more important than life’s everyday obligations.
D
The metaphor emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations.