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Although vastly popular during its time, much nineteenth-century women`s fiction in the United States went unread by the twentieth-century educated elite, who were taught to ignore it as didactic. However, American literature has a tradition of didacticism going back to its Puritan roots, shifting over time from sermons and poetic transcripts into novels, which proved to be perfect vehicles for conveying social values. In the nineteenth century, critics reviled Poe for neglecting to conclude his stories with pithy moral tags, while Longfellow was canonized for his didactic verse. Although rhetorical changes favoring the anti-didactic can be detected as nineteenth-century American transformed itself into a secular society, it was twentieth-century criticism, which placed aesthetic value above everything else, that had no place in its doctrine for the didacticism of others.
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
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In the context in which it appears, “conveying” most nearly means
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In the passage, the function of the highlighted portion( in yeast and worms, metabolism is both sped up and altered) is to
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The passage points out which of the following in order to explain the appeal of the notion that some attine ants cultivate and control fungus?
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In the context in which it appears, the word "manipulate” most nearly means
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The author of the passage is primarily concerned with
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The university's once _____ department of economic history has lost prestige and transmogrified into a department of management and marketing.
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The great (i)_____ of most books that examine the American presidency is their ideological bias, but for most part, this volume on the presidency maintains an impressive degree of (ii)_____.
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Because people expect theater directors to be authoritarians, many were surprised that Clark was so _____.
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Despite the fact that the book promises a complete rethinking of the factors contributing to the conflict, the picture that the book paints is (i)_____: in identifying cause, it is more orthodox than (ii)_____.
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Despite the _____ of medical information available through e-mail, the Internet, and mobile devices, not many patients are taking advantage of the potential of electronic communications for health-related needs.
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After rising continuously over the summer, commodity prices fell, leaving analyst wondering whether the downward trend is a turning point or merely a _____ before demand picks up in the winter months.
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Well organized and researched and including all significant discoveries and medical scientists, this history of Western medicine has justly been called ______________.
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