Reorder Paragraphs · Part 2: Reading

Playwrights

1 student marked "I sat this"Added 7 Jul 2022Question #100258

Put the paragraphs in order.

  1. AThornton Wilder and Tennessee Williams, on the one hand, and Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, on the other, are playwrights with very different approaches to empathy and aesthetic distance.
  2. BHowever, these writers have in common their means of artistic expression – the play.
  3. CThey create recognizable worlds with troubling relevance to human behavior and social themes.
  4. DOthers dismiss the “illusion of the real” to engage us in political arguments or absurdist metaphors.
  5. EPlaywrights come to their craft with different aesthetic sensibilities.
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Reorder Paragraphs format (Pearson)

Pearson's name: Reorder Paragraph

PromptText up to 110 words
Time to answerNot set per question (Part 2 lasts 23–30 minutes)
Skills assessedReading

How it is scored

  • Partial credit applies: a partly correct response still scores.

Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 2: Reading, checked 9 October 2026.