Set 14: Transitions (Intermediate)
Explanation
PASSAGE
Virginia Woolf's essay 'A Room of One's Own' argues that women's literary achievements have been constrained by material conditions—lack of education, private space, and financial independence. The essay imagines Shakespeare's equally talented sister, 'Judith,' doomed to obscurity by her gender. _______ Woolf's analysis anticipated later feminist scholarship on the social construction of genius.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Detailed Answer Explanation
This question asks you to choose the transition that best connects two ideas. Woolf's focus on material conditions connects to later feminist analysis of genius as socially constructed. 'In this respect' shows how her work anticipated later scholarship in this particular way. Transitions signal the relationship between sentences or paragraphs. Determine the logical relationship (addition, contrast, cause-effect, example) and select the transition that accurately expresses it. The right transition makes the relationship between ideas crystal clear. Consider what logical connection exists: Is the second idea adding to the first? Contrasting it? Showing a result? The transition should accurately reflect this relationship.
Key Evidence:
• "constrained by material conditions"
• "social construction of genius"
Why others are wrong: C (Example - anticipating scholarship is a consequence, not an example of her argument.), D (Specific detail - the later scholarship is an extension, not a specification.), A (Contrast - the later scholarship continues, not contradicts, Woolf's ideas.).
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