The playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play, A Raisin in the Sun, depicts the experiences of the Younger family, who have recently moved into a predominantly white neighborhood. The play is significant because it explored themes of race, class, and the American Dream. The play’s title is from a line in a Langston Hughes poem, and the idea of "a raisin in the sun" is a metaphor for something that has potential but is being stifled and suppressed. Hansberry’s play is considered to be a groundbreaking work that helped to change the way that race and class were portrayed in American theater.
","stem_html":"Which choice best corrects the punctuation error in the passage?
","rationale_html":"The semicolon after "Dream" is incorrect because it is used to connect two independent clauses; however, the second clause is not independent. The second clause is a dependent clause modifying the noun phrase "play’s title" and should be separated from the main clause with a comma. The correct punctuation is in choice D.
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