Question

How do historical narratives help readers better understand information about the past?

A. They make historical information more appealing and help hold readers attention.
B. They convert information from written histories into oral histories.
C. They present a variety of conclusions about history drawn from contradictory sources.
D. They make historical information more accurate by including a lot of dates and proper names.

Answer 1

The correct answer is A. They make historical information more appealing and help hold readers attention.

Step-by-step explanation:

Historical narratives use information about past events, people, societies, etc. to create narrative texts or stories that have narrative features such as the use of descriptions, dialogues, characters, complex plots, suspense, among others. These features make historical information to be more appealing to the readers because it is easier to understand events of the past if these are presented through a narrator or through specific important characters. Also, this type of narrative catches the attention of most readers who consider it is more interesting learning history through stories than by reading an encyclopedia or similar source.