For a work to be rightly thought

Answer choices

1. A

   Out of Scope: well received16% picked this

   A work of literature cannot be well received within an external national tradition if it is not well received within

   We never used language like well-received in the passage, so we can't support this very extreme and absolute conditional rule about how well-received works.

   16%
2. B

   Unknown Comparison: offers more5% picked this

   A work of world literature offers more to readers within external national traditions than it offers to readers

   There is nothing in the paragraph allowing us to compare how much a work of world literature offers to readers in the author's nation vs. to readers in other nations. The expression "how much does it offer" means "how much value does it impart". We're not even dealing with things that could be quantified and compared in that "which one does it offer more to"?

   5%
3. C

   Out of Scope: more meaningful8% picked this

   A work should not be thought of as world literature if it is more meaningful to readers from the writer’s national tradition than it

   We never used language like more meaningful in the passage. The only way we have of saying that something should not be though of as world literature is saying "it wasn't received or wasn't interpreted in the author's national tradition or in some other national tradition". We can't invent a rule that says, "If more meaningful to your compatriots, then not world literature".

   8%
4. D

   Out of Scope: influenced by14% picked this

   A work of world literature is always influenced by works outside of the

   There's nothing in any of these necessary conditions for world literature that talks about the work being influenced by foreign works. We only talk about this work influencing domestic readers and international readers.

   14%
5. E

   Correct57% picked this

   A work is not part of world literature if it affects the development of only

   Why this is right

   This, unlike most correct answers on Most Supported and Must Be True, can be derived from one claim: the first sentence. That rule stipulates a necessary quality for world literature: World Received and interpreted within literature → author's national tradition and within external national traditions That right side means that to be world literature, you have to affect at least 2 national traditions. "Being received and interpreted within a national tradition" qualifies as "affecting the development of the national tradition". So this answer choice is just doing a contrapositive of the first sentence. If you're only affecting one national tradition, then you can't be affecting both domestic and international traditions, and so you can't be world literature.

   Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   57%