Writing an Argumentative Essay about the Nobel Prize in Literature
Question 6 of 24 • APSB 2023 English 2
Read the claim.Bob Dylan deserved to win the Nobel Prize.
Answer
A
"[Dylan is] the first American to have won the prize in more than two decades. Not since novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993 has an American claimed the prize."
B
"The prospect that the musician would be the one to break the Americans' long dry spell was regarded as far-fetched—not least because he made his career foremost on the stage, not the printed page."
C
"His track 'Like a Rolling Stone' has taken on mythic standing in the decades since its release; many, including Dylan himself, have pointed to it as emblematic of a sea change in American music."
D
"This year, the prize carries with it a purse of approximately $900,000 and, as usual, inclusion on literature's most illustrious list—the pantheon of Nobel winners."