Question

Read the following excerpt from the article "Vision, Voice and the Power of Creation: An Author Speaks Out," by T. A. Barron, and answer the question that follows:

Yet deeper than character, or even place, is another concept: voice. More than any other doorway to the imagination, I find this one the trickiest to open—and the hardest to close. For a character's true voice is heard, its tones, cadences, and ideas are long remembered.

The ancients [people from ancient history] used anima, in fact, to describe breath as well as soul. That is wholly appropriate, for in the breath—the voice—of a character lies its essential spirit. If the writer can truly hear the voice of a character, so will the reader.

Which phrase explicitly states the author's attitude about voice?

It is the trickiest door to open.
The ancients invented it.
Only the writer hears it.
The reader will always hear it.

Answer 1

Answer: It is the trickiest door to open.

Step-by-step explanation:

We can infer from the text that the author here believes that the voice of a character is very challenging to hear from the phrase about it being the trickiest door to open and the hardest to close. This is therefore the author's opinion about voice.

The second option could not be the answer because they used anima not voice. The third and fourth options are incorrect as well because the writer can hear the voice but the reader does not always hear the voice as they only hear it if the writer does.