SAT Text Structure and Purpose Question

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Question 1 · Medium · Reading and WritingSeptember 2025 Batch 3 · Q5Text Structure and Purpose · 0 solved

The Heege Manuscript(HM)is a collection of booklets of once-unbound paper sheets on which Richard Heege copied various texts at his fifteenth-century home between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire in England. Most other contemporary personal manuscripts like the Findern Anthology(FA)consist primarily of pieces by celebrated medieval authors like Chaucer and other readings favored by elites, whereas the HM has a distinctive emphasis on the popular,including entertainments like scary stories, and the practical,with advice about hygiene. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?

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Strategy

Look at how the underlined words relate to the surrounding sentence and the passage’s main point. If the phrase introduces a comparison or contrast, ask whether it is supplying background that helps explain why the main subject is unusual, typical, or important. Choose the option that describes that role, not the factual content alone.

Hints (open one at a time)

Hint 1

Notice the signal word that connects the underlined part to the rest of the sentence.

Hint 2

Ask what the comparison with other manuscripts helps the reader understand about the Heege Manuscript.

Hint 3

The underlined portion shows what is normal for the time, so its job is to make the Heege Manuscript’s difference stand out.

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