To me, a "classic" means precisely the opposite of what my predecessors understood: a work is classical by reason of its resistance to contemporaneity and supposed universality, by reason of its capacity to indicate human particularity and difference in that past epoch. The classic is not what tells me about shared humanity — or, more truthfully put, what lets me recognize myself as already present in the past, what nourishes in me the illusion that everything has been like me and has existed only to prepare the way for me. Instead, the classic is what gives access to radically different forms of human consciousness for any given generation of readers, and thereby expands for them the range of possibilities of what it means to be a human being.A classic is able to focus on the contemporary human condition and a unified experience of human consciousness.A classical work seeks to resist particularity and temporal difference even as it focuses on a common humanity.A classic is a work exploring the new, going beyond the universal, the contemporary, and the notion of a unified human consciousness.A classic is a work that provides access to a universal experience of the human race as opposed to radically different forms of human consciousness.

The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author' s position.To me, a "classic" means precisely the opposite of what my predecessors understood: a work is classical by reason of its resistance to contemporaneity and supposed universality, by reason of its capacity to indicate human particularity and difference in that past epoch. The classic is not what tells me about shared humanity — or, more truthfully put, what lets me recognize myself as already present in the past, what nourishes in me the illusion that everything has been like me and has existed only to prepare the way for me. Instead, the classic is what gives access to radically different forms of human consciousness for any given generation of readers, and thereby expands for them the range of possibilities of what it means to be a human being.A classic is able to focus on the contemporary human condition and a unified experience of human consciousness.A classical work seeks to resist particularity and temporal difference even as it focuses on a common humanity.A classic is a work exploring the new, going beyond the universal, the contemporary, and the notion of a unified human consciousness.A classic is a work that provides access to a universal experience of the human race as opposed to radically different forms of human consciousness.

Select the correct text in the passage.Which phrase best shows how the author introduces the idea that the old man has a hard life?(2) It is well known that the barrel-organ, like the violin, gets a fuller and more sympathetic tone the older it is. The old artist had an excellent instrument, not of the modern noisy type which imitates a whole orchestra with flutes and bells and beats of drums, but a melancholy old-fashioned barrel-organ which knew how to lend a dreamy mystery to the gayest allegretto, and in whose proudest tempo di Marcia there sounded an unmistakable undertone of resignation. And in the tenderer pieces of the repertoire, where the melody, muffled and staggering like a cracked old human voice, groped its way amongst the rusty pipes of the treble, then there was a trembling in the bass like suppressed sobs. Now and then the voice of the tired organ failed it completely, and then the old man would [regretfully] turn the handle during some bars of rest more touching in their eloquent silence than any music.

Which example is most clearly a work of Postmodern literature?A.An autobiography that introduces fictional elementsB.A poem that abandons meter and rhyme schemeC.A history book that has unintentional factual errorsD.A short story that contains supernatural elementsSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

How might a reviewer express the idea that a story has a modern feel to it?

What does the author hope to convince you, the reader, that history is not?