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    (C) placid: boredom

    (D) brusque: retort

    (E) solicitous: concern

    Notable as important nineteenth-century novels by women, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights treat women very differently. Shelley produced a (5) "masculine text in which the fates of subordinate female characters seem entirely dependent on the actions of male heroes or anti-heroes. Bronte produced a more realistic narrative portraying a world where men battle for the (10)favors of apparently high-spirited, independent women. Nevertheless, these two novels are alike in several crucial ways. Many readers are convinced that the compelling mysteries of each plot conceal elaborate structures of allusion and (15)fierce, though shadowy, moral ambitions that seem to indicate metaphysical intentions, though efforts by critics to articulate these intentions, have generated much controversy. Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic (20)disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as well as ironic tensions that inhere in the relationship between surface drama and concealed authorial intention, a method I call an evidentiary narrative technique.

    17. The primary purpose of the passage is to

    (A) defend a controversial interpretation of two novels

    (B) explain the source of widely recognized responses to two novels

    (C) delineate broad differences between two novels

    (D) compare and contrast two novels

    (E) criticize and evaluate two novels

    18. According to the passage, Frankenstein differs from Wuthering Heights in its

    (A) use of multiple narrators

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