Like the modernists, postmodern writers focused on subjective experience rather objective cultural norms A: Expressing or dealin
g with facts or condition as perceived without distortion by personal feelings prejudices or interpretations B: Characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather as independent of mind C: Characteristic of or belonging to the superficial world D: None of the above
Both modernist and postmodernist writers focused on subjective experience that was characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived, rather than focusing on experience that existed independent of the mind. This experience, because it focused on reality as perceived, would therefore be distorted by personal feelings or prejudices. It was not, however, a superficial reality. Therefore, answer B is the correct choice.</span>
The answer choices about facts and statistics and quotations should immediately be eliminated. There are no statistics or quotations anywhere in the excerpt. The speaker does not use neutral language when he says words like quaint, incendiary, and uninflected. All of these carry an opinion. Vivid imagery is correct because of the way he talks about the different groups and their locations.
