SAT Text Structure and Purpose Question
The following text is from Armando Palcio Valdés's short story “The love of Clatilde,” originally published in Spanish in 1884. In the story, Don Jerónimo is a financial supporter of artists in the theater. Any youth from the provinces who arrived in Madrid with a drama in his pocket could take no surer road to seeing it produced than that which led to the home of Don Jeronimo. One and all, he received them with open arms, the good and the had alike. There is no denying that, since he was rather brusque in his ways, he never spared the young author's who asked his advice and read him their productions, but criticized vigorously, even to the verge of insult Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
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The trap here
Text Structure: naming what a sentence says instead of what it does — "What is the function of the underlined sentence?" asks for its job in the paragraph, not its content.