Q17

[tirzamullin]

How is B right? It only talks about blues music, and the passage says that African American writers have used music and musicians, not anything about blues music. This is why I eliminated this answer. Could someone give me an explanation?

[maryadkins]

The assertion that the author is making here, the one that we want to call into question, is that while some African American writers used music as the theme and metaphor, they didn't as the structure. Toni Morrison, she claims, was the first.

(B) says nope, there were other writers at the time who based the form of their work on the structure of blues music. Doesn't matter that it's blues as opposed to, say, not blues.

The question is whether she was the first to use music structurally in literature, or not.

[ganbayou]

What makes C wrong?
is it because arts may not refer to music?
I was not sure about "blues" in B but since its about music, this kind of detail is not a big issue?

[KatiaK713]

Hi there,
I see how B is right, but could someone please formulate why C is wrong? Is it only because B is better, or there is some flaw in C that I don't see?
Thanks!

[CarolineL560]

Regarding C, aside from the fact that B was pretty much a slam dunk answer choice (even one writer having done this technique/style before is a major problem for "NONE had attempted to draw upon... UNTIL Toni did so"), I flagged it because of the word "appear". Toni Morrison did this deliberately to convey something, so appearing to do so doesn't hit it as hard.