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ACT Reading Prose Fiction Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the overall purpose of this passage?
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Transcript
- 00:04
Shmoopy question, comin' at ya... You may have already read this passage, but
- 00:08
if you want to check it out again, just hit pause. We're not going anywhere.
- 00:19
Which of the following best describes the overall purpose of this passage?
- 00:24
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:31
Ok, so what is this question asking?
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- 00:33
It wants to know if we can read an uber-long passage, and boil the whole thing down to a single, overarching idea.
- 00:44
What is this passage... all about? Let's go through the answer choices, one by one.
- 00:51
Is it to note the superstitions surrounding birth?
- 00:55
Well, there was that part where the neighborhood women said that David would be able to see
- 01:00
dead people.
- 01:01
But...it doesn't seem like the whole passage focuses on superstition.
- 01:09
What about B... "To describe the circumstances of the narrator's birth as well as offer hints
- 01:14
about his family and his community?"
- 01:16
Uh, yeah. That's exactly what it does. We hear a lot about David's birth, and we get
- 01:21
a general sense of the quirks of the people in his neighborhood.
- 01:25
Just to make sure, let's take a look at C and D.
- 01:28
"To emphasize that the narrator's family and neighbors were sea-going people?"
- 01:33
Nope. The passage never says anything about that. Adios, choice C
- 01:41
Finally... D? "To foreshadow the narrator's unhappy adulthood?"
- 01:46
Well, there's one line where the neighborhood ladies say David will be unlucky, but it's
- 01:51
definitely not the main idea.
- 01:52
So our answer is B.
- 01:54
As in, "Burial seems like a bad choice."
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