Reading Comprehension (RC) | The autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,

6. With which one of the following statements would the author of the passage be most likely toagree?

(A) Some authors of slave narratives allowed the purposes of the genre to overshadow their ownexperiences.

(B) The slave narrative, no less than the domestic novel, constitutes a literarygenre.

Evidence : Some critics have argued that, by conforming to convention, Jacobs shortchanged her own experiences; one critic, for example, claims that in Jacobs’s work the purposes of the domestic novel overshadow those of the typical slave narrative. But the relationship between the two genres is morecomplex .

Here the author explicitly agrees that the "typical slave narrative" constitutes a literarygenre.

[color=#ff0000] (C) Authors who write in a particular genre must obey the conventions of that genre.

(D) An autobiography, no less than a novel, should tell a powerful story.

(E) Autobiographies should be evaluated not on their literary merit but on their historical
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