OFFICIAL EXPLANATION QUESTION #2

Did you notice that the question is asking you to apply information to come up with your answer? While choice A provides an accurate description of what the sentences do in the passage, it doesn't describe the primary purpose of the two groups of words in bold type. You can also eliminate choices C, D, and E because they don't accurately explain the purpose of the word groups. Choice B is the best answer-the most accurate answer-but only reading through all the answer choices will assure you of this.

pROBABLY THE BEST ADVICE IS TO READ THE ENTIRE PASSAGE SO YOU HAVE A CLEAR PICTURE OF THE FLOW OF THE PASSAGE ITSELF.

Moreover., a trick, is to notice words at the beginning of the sentence: if they denote a contrast or an agreement or a doubt.and so forth Also, use only or the first part of the answer choices because they come in pair

For example

In the passage, what is the primary purpose of the two groups of words in boldface type?

A. The first provides contrast to the sentence that precedes it; the second expands upon and elucidates the sentence that precedes it.

Simultaneously, he is categorized as an anti-modernist, NO we do not have a contrast

B. The first provides background information that leads up to the argument; the second presents the argument.

Simultaneously, he is categorized as an anti-modernist, a poet who has little in common with his contemporaries, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Woolf, and others.

yes is true because it shows up who he was

C. The first reinforces the argument through contrast; the second explains the argument through explanation and expansion.

Again contrast. NO

D. The first states a position that the argument as a whole contradicts; the second presents the argument.

No way later in the passage we have a negation of what the sentence tell us about Frost

E. The first provides contrast to the sentence that precedes it; the second provides evidence that supports the argument.

Again: contrast.................

I hope this helps