Critics and admirers alike have called the writer Mei-Lin Chao a miniaturist for her short, precisely structured stories. Reading those stories carefully reveals something less obvious: each apparently self-contained piece participates in a sprawling, multi-decade architecture, with characters, settings, and motifs reappearing in altered forms. The miniature, in Chao's hands, is the unit of an enormous structure.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence in the text?
- A
It introduces a different writer.
- Bcheck_circle
It complicates the miniaturist label by identifying a larger architecture beneath the surface.
- C
It restates the critics' label using different words.
- D
It refutes the existence of Chao's stories.
Explanation
The sentence reveals a hidden larger architecture that complicates the miniaturist label. B captures this complicating function.