The Scale of a Story

3 questions. Choose the meaning or usage that best fits each situation. Try answering before reopening the passage.

1What makes the original blurb hyperbolic?A. It makes a modest comparison between two described landscapes.B. It uses a mathematical curve as the subject of the story.C. It uses deliberate exaggeration far beyond a literal, supportable claim about readers' memories.D. It reports a carefully counted turnout within a stated five-year period.

2An astonishingly large range of inventive settings may be called _____.A. stupendousB. ordinaryC. limitedD. uniform

3Which statement uses unparalleled with a defensible scope?A. Among the seminar's completed manuscripts, this alone supports two coherent reading sequences through the same scenes.B. Several other submissions have exactly this structure, making it unmatched within the same collection.C. One reader likes the story best, proving that no other manuscript anywhere has ever used the same structure.D. This structure must be unmatched in all literature, although only the submitted manuscripts were checked.

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