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3. Which of the following narrative strategies best exemplifies the “evidentiary narrative technique” (Highlighted)?

(A) Telling a story in such a way that the author’s real intentions are discernible only through interpretations of allusions to a world outside that of the story
(B) Telling a story in such a way that the reader is aware as events unfold of the author’s underlying purposes and the ways these purposes conflict with the drama of the plot
(C) Telling a story in a way that both directs attention to the incongruities among the points of view of several characters and hints that the plot has a significance other than that suggested by its mere events
(D) Telling a story as a mystery in which the reader must deduce, from the conflicting evidence presented by several narrators, the moral and philosophical significance of character and event
(E) Telling a story from the author’s point of view in a way that implies both the author’s and the reader’s ironic distance from the dramatic unfolding of events

Explanation: Consider the lines : "Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic 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,". This storytelling method emphasizes on inconsistencies between different view points of characters on same events and relationship which the drama and author's intention implying that all that is visible to the reader is not the complete plot.
The above implication is best portrayed by C.

E is incorrect because it gives an example of a story that focusses on author’s and the reader’s ironic distance from the dramatic unfolding of events, which is not what the method is about, as we just inferred above.


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Dear Experts,

Could you pls help with explanation of Q3?

More generally, if you could, how to decipher vocabulary intensive RC sentences (like this one) and corresponding answer choices.
30 secs in the question, I knew I had no idea what evidentiary narrative technique is, I still ended up giving it whole 2:26 mins, POE-ed to B, and then got it wrong.
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vocabulary intensive RC sentences

Which test are you studying for?

If you're studying for the GMAT, then do not go down this road. The GMAT will NEVER give you problems that hang on the definition of a relatively obscure or 'advanced' word.
The only words whose definitions you will NEED to know for the GMAT are words that any well-educated user of the English language—a group that includes you, if you're studying for the GMAT and considering attending an English-language graduate business school—should know.

If you come across a difficult word anywhere in the GMAT verbal section, then one of the following things will be true:

1/ (MOST COMMONLY) There will be enough context clues—quite often more than enough of them!—for you to figure out what the word means.
In these cases, you may not be able to figure out all of the granular specifics of this definition. E.g., you may only be able to figure out "[WORD] is some type of _____". But... if that's all you can figure out, then it's all you'll NEED to figure out.

2/ You won't need to understand the definition of the word at all.
This occasionally happens in scientific RC passages. When such a passage contains a region that's dense with scientific details and jargon, it's very unlikely that you'll need any specific understanding of those words—it'll almost certainly be enough to ascertain what type of information you're reading, and WHY that information is there (i.e., what function that information serves, relative to the main theme(s) of the passage).

Or...
3/ The word actually isn't very advanced, but, for some reason—maybe terrible luck, maybe not having read enough decently high-level English reading material, possibly both of those—you just haven't learned it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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