Text Structure and Purpose

SAT Reading and Writing· difficulty 3/5

Photographer Dorothea Lange's images of the Great Depression depicted displaced families with unflinching directness. She rejected sentimentality, refusing to compose her subjects into reassuring tableaux. She insisted on photographing them at eye level, treating their dignity as the central fact of every frame.

Which choice best describes the function of the third sentence in the text?

  • A

    It develops the second sentence's claim about rejecting sentimentality with a specific compositional choice.

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  • B

    It contradicts the directness claimed in the first sentence.

  • C

    It defines the term 'tableau'.

  • D

    It introduces a new photographer for comparison.

Explanation

Eye-level composition extends the rejection of sentimentality. B captures this developmental support.

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