QUESTION TEXT: Literary critic: A folktale is a traditional…
QUESTION TYPE: Sufficient Assumption
CONCLUSION: Folktales can have deeper meaning.
REASONING: Folktales have the wisdom of the culture.
ANALYSIS: On sufficient assumption questions, you must connect the evidence to the conclusion.
We know folktales carry the wisdom of culture. We want to prove they have deeper meaning:
Wisdom ➞ Deeper meaning
That statement links the two ideas. We get:
Folktales ➞ Wisdom ➞ Deeper Meaning
___________
- This doesn’t help us prove that such tales have deep meaning.
- CORRECT. Folktales let us learn about the wisdom of cultures. This tells us that they therefore have deeper meaning.
See the diagram above. - We don’t care about tales that lack deep meaning. We want to prove that folktales do have deeper meaning.
- This tells us about tales that have deep meaning. That’s not helpful, because we don’t know if folk tales have deep meaning. We’re trying to prove that they do!
- This tells us that folktales could have deeper meaning. We must prove that they definitely do.
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