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Verbal·Expression of Ideas·Rhetorical Synthesis
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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
  • Melissa Cody is a Diné (Navajo) textile artist known for blending traditional Diné designs (stripes, zigzags, and diamond patterns) with nontraditional elements.
  • Cody’s work incorporates arrangements of shapes or text inspired by video game graphics and pop culture references.
  • Cody: “I’m a child of ’80s video game culture...I grew up with this world of pixelization.”
  • Cody: “The things we consider tradition now weren’t considered tradition when they first came about.”
  • Her tapestry Only Love Can Break Your Heart features pop song lyrics in a blocky digital font over a jagged diamond pattern.
  • Her tapestry Walking Off No Water Mesa features rectangular panes revealing a stylized landscape patterned by contrasting colored diamonds.
The student wants to connect a quotation to a particular nontraditional design element in Cody’s work. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A
Cody’s tapestry Only Love Can Break Your Heart features a jagged diamond pattern, a traditional design element that “we consider tradition now.”
B
The pop song lyrics in a blocky digital font in Only Love Can Break Your Heart reflect Cody’s childhood familiarity with blocky video game graphics-what she calls “this world of pixelization.”
C
According to Cody, some elements of Walking Off No Water Mesa, such as contrasting colored diamonds, “weren’t considered tradition when they first came about.”
D
Cody’s background as “a child of ’80s video game culture” factored into her decision to blend traditional and nontraditional design elements in Walking Off No Water Mesa.