Explanation for Question 10 From the Reading Section on the 2019 March Sat
Looking now at question number 10, 2 we are being asked about the italicized sentences in line 72 to 3 73. And what the role of those lines is. 4 So looking at the italicized lines, 5 we know based on the fact that they are italicized, 6 that, um, the author is deliberately sort of creating a shift in the passage. 7 So let's take a look at these lines for that context, 8 phony, how fantasy works and memory. 9 I haven't thought about that evening in years. So this sentence here is really 10 key. I haven't thought about that evening in years. 11 So this tells us that the previous discussion of Virginia's 12 sort of breakthrough moment learning this instrument, 13 um, has come many years in PR previously. 14 So when the author says, I haven't thought about that evening in years, 15 and I tell us, I says that that makes it a bit clear to 16 us that we are actually having a time jump in this passage. 17 So the, a story is being told towards the beginning of the passage. 18 And then right here at the end of the passage, Virginia is at a 19 future moment, reflecting back on this realization, 20 this epiphany that she had earlier on in her musical career with this instrument. 21 So the tele station here serves the role of clarifying for us that 22 we're, we're doing a little bit of a time shift in this final paragraph 23 of the passage and without the italics there, 24 it would just be a little bit less obvious, but you can tell the 25 role of the italics by looking at that last line...