Question

Read the passage from a room of ones own.

Here am I asking why women did not write poetry in the Elizabeth age and I am not sure how they are educated. Whether they were taught to write weather they had sitting rooms to themselves how many women had children before they were 21 what in short they did from eight in the morning till eight at night they had no money evidently according to professor Trevelyan they were married whether they liked it or not before they were out of the nursery at 15 or 16 very likely. It would have been extremely odd even upon this SHELBY had one of them said only written the plays of Shakespeare I concluded and I thought that the older gentleman who is dead now but was a Bishop I think who declared that it was impossible for any woman passed present or two come to have the genius of Shakespeare

Which statement best explains how the structure of the text support its main idea ?

1) The problem solution structure empathizes the challenges that female artist face and propose a solution two women who choose to defy cultural norms
2) The chronological structure empathizes the challenges that female artist face by giving detail about the lives of several different women living during this time period
3) The cause affect structure describes societal demand and limitations that were placed on women during this time. Showing the underlying cause of a lack of female poet
4) The compare contrast structure shows the difference between a woman who obey cultural norms and a woman who defies them emphasizing that female artist our where

Answer 1

C

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

3) The cause-effect structure describes societal demand and limitations that were placed on women during this time, showing the underlying cause of a lack of female poet.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this passage, the author discusses why in Elizabethan times there were no women who had the genius in literature of Shakespeare. Woolf wonders about this lack of female writers, and she argues that this could not have been any other way considering the societal pressures that were placed on women. Women had very little education, no privacy or free time and very early marriages and motherhood. This is the cause for the lack of female poets, which is the effect.