Exploring Similar Structures in Literary Excerpts
Excerpt from “First Generation” of Dreaming in Cuban
She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Líder, a star pitcher in his youth, narrowly missing a baseball career in America. His wicked curveball attracted the major league scouts, and the Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds. Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.
Excerpt from “Like Mexicans”
We talked for an hour and had apple pie and coffee, slowly. Finally, we got up with Carolyn taking my hand. Slightly embarrassed, I tried to pull away but her grip held me. I let her have her way as she led me down the hallway with her mother right behind me. . . . Carolyn waved again. I looked back, waving. . . . Her people were like Mexicans, only different.
These two literary excerpts share a common structural element. Let's delve deeper into their similarities and how they appeal to the reader's logic.
Which best states how the structures of the excerpts are similar?
A) Each relates an anecdote to appeal to the reader’s emotions.
B) Each presents factual evidence to appeal to the reader’s logic.
C) Each documents career credentials to appeal to the reader’s ethics.
D) Each discusses a political event to appeal to the reader’s logic.
Answer
B) Each presents factual evidence to appeal to the reader’s logic is the best way to state how the structures of the excerpts are similar. The first excerpt presented the factual evidence why El Lider became frustrated. The second excerpt presented the factual evidence of why the "I" person said that the person he/she met "were like Mexicans, only different."