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Set 1: Cross-Text Connections

Explanation

Answer: A

PASSAGE

Text 1 Postmodern literature is characterized by fragmentation, paradox, and questionable narrators. It often deconstructs grand narratives, rejecting the idea of absolute truth or closure. Text 2 In 'Pale Fire', Nabokov presents a poem by one fictional author and a commentary by another. The commentary, which misinterprets the poem to tell the commentator's own delusion, serves as a prime example of the text undermining its own authority.

How does 'Pale Fire' (Text 2) exemplify the postmodern characteristics defined in Text 1?

A. It uses an unreliable narrator (commentator) to deconstruct the possibility of objective interpretation.✓ Correct
B. It tells a simple, linear story.
C. It confirms that the author is always right.
D. It is a historical biography.

Detailed Explanation

Text 1: Questionable narrators/Deconstructs narrative. Text 2: Misinterprets/Delusion/Undermining authority. Exemplification: Unreliability.

Key Evidence:

• "questionable narrators"

• "misinterprets ... delusion"

• "undermining its own authority"

Why others are wrong: B (Fragmentation.), C (Undermines authority.), D (Fiction.).

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