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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
The student wants to introduce Alanis Morissette and her album Jagged Little Pill to an audience unfamiliar with either. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal? A) Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill defined a generation: women around the world saw themselves represented in her emotive lyrics. B) Canadian artist Alanis Morissette found success with her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill , which became a symbol of female empowerment. C) Jagged Little Pill was a turning point in Alanis Morissette’s career and showcased three of her most well- known songs. D) The success of Jagged Little Pill can
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• Alanis Morissette is a Canadian singer- songwriter who is known for her emotive voice and confessional songwriting. • Morissette’s third album, Jagged Little Pill , was released in 1995 and marked a significant turning point in her career. • Jagged Little Pill has sold over 33 million copies globally, with hits like “Ironic,” “You Oughta Know,” and “Hand in my Pocket” propelling the album to its massive success. • The album became a symbol of
independence for young women and reflected Morissette’s own journey of self-discovery and empowerment.
• The songs of Jagged Little Pill were used in a Broadway musical of the same name that premiered in 2019 and won two Tony Awards.
be attributed to its liberated, vulnerable vocals and to its sophisticated, potent lyrics.
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
The student wants to pinpoint a cause of Truman Capote’s banishment from his social circles. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal? A) Though a longtime member of New York City’s elite social society, Truman Capote, by the end of his life, had been cast out of that social sphere. B) Truman Capote’s “La Côte Basque 1965” was a no-holds-barred satire of upper-class socialites. C) In publishing “La Côte Basque 1965,” Truman Capote embarrassed his socialite friends, who then excluded him from their circles. D) Though an accomplished novelist, Truman Capote eventually fell from the social ladder he had climbed.
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Author Truman Capote was also a prominent New York City socialite, counting some of the country’s most famous figures among his close contacts. • His fall from the top of New York’s social scene was due in part to an excerpt he published in Esquire magazine in 1975. • An excerpt, titled “La Côte Basque 1965,” featured many of the real-life people he had come to know in New York, thinly veiled behind fictitious character names. • Capote’s writing mocked these
characters—really, as most saw it, his actual friends—for their aloofness and past wrongdoings. Feeling betrayed and humiliated, the upper-class social circles of New York City effectively ostracized Capote for what would be the rest of his life.
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