Read the passage from A Room of One's Own.
Which statement best explains how the structure of this text
supports Woolf's purpose?
There was an enormous body of masculine opinion to the
effect that nothing could be expected of women intellectually.
Even if her father did not read out loud these opinions, any
girl could read them for herself; and the reading, even in the
nineteenth century, must have lowered her vitality, and told
profoundly upon her work. There would always have been
that assertion--you cannot do this, you are incapable of
doing that--to protest against, to overcome. Probably for a
novelist this germ is no longer of much effect for there have
been women novelists of merit. But for painters it must still
have some sting in it, and for musicians, I imagine, is even
now active and poisonous in the extreme. The woman
composer stands where the actress stood in the time of
The compare-contrast structure helps the reader
understand how women artists in a variety of disciplines
have been affected by cultural norms.
The cause-effect structure supports the point of view that
men particularly fathers, are often the source of young
women's oppression.
The problem-solution structure supports the point of view
that conditions for women artists in most disciplines have
improved dramatically.
The chronological structure illustrates the pressures
discouraging women artists from pursuing their passions
from youth in adulthood