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Set 5: Cross-Text Connections

Explanation

Answer: A

PASSAGE

Text 1 Standard English is often treated as the 'correct' form of the language, associated with education and authority. Text 2 In 'Their Eyes Were Watching God', Zora Neale Hurston writes the dialogue in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). By using the dialect for the protagonist's inner thoughts and speech, she validates it as a language of complex emotion and intellect, rejecting the hierarchy of 'standard' English.

How does Hurston's stylistic choice in Text 2 function as a critique of the norm in Text 1?

A. It elevates a marginalized dialect to the status of literary art, challenging linguistic elitism.✓ Correct
B. It shows she couldn't spell.
C. It makes the book hard to read.
D. It agrees that Standard English is better.

Detailed Explanation

Text 1: Standard = Correct/Authority. Text 2: AAVE = Complex/Intellect. Critique: Validates dialect/Rejects hierarchy.

Key Evidence:

• "validates it"

• "rejecting the hierarchy"

Why others are wrong: B (Stylistic choice.), C (Effect, not function.), D (Rejects hierarchy.).

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