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Please explain BB Pg 589 # 8. Why is the answer not B?

PeteSAT

The first passage doesn't say anything about Linnaeus' work limiting present day science. It does mention that for the 100 years after the "18th century botanist" came up with his classification system, others focused (too much?) on using his system, but that's not modern day...plus it doesn't explicitly state that it limited science.

Kowloon

I also chose B, and I'm sorry to tell the poster above me that the answer is not really satisfactory... (at least for my limited logic). I absolutely thought that both passages used personal voice (choice D), while only passage 2 used literary allusion (choice B) --> "The cost of having so successfully itemized and pigeonholded nature [...]"

PeteSAT

Hi Kowloon,

First, I think you're referring to question #7, not #8, which was the subject of the previous posts. But to answer your question about #7: I think you're getting confused about what personal voice means. The personal voice only refers to writing in which the author directly references himself or herself in the first person, such as "_I_ felt..." or "It was interesting to _me_..." The first passage does not use personal voice. (FYI, it's not considered the author's personal voice is the author uses "I", "me", etc. when speaking as a character)

Literary allusion is "an explicit or implicit reference to another literary text that is "sufficiently overt" to be recognized and understood by competent readers". I don't see any reference to another literary text in the 2nd passage, but hey, maybe I'm not a "competent reader" .

Hope that helps.

Kowloon

Oh!! Thanks for clearing this out Pete! (btw, I WAS referring to #8)

PeteSAT

That's weird...in my copy of the Blue Book question 7 is the one with "literary allusion" and "personal voice" as answer choices. It that question number 8 for you?

D-Yu

PeteSAT, "literary allusion" is in #7 of my book too

for #8, both passages say that Linnaeus made a contribution to natural science, they just differ on how much he contributed. (2nd line, 1st passage "enormous and essential contribution to natural history / 2nd line 2nd passage " value of the tool he gave natural science"
the answer isn't B cuz the first passage doesn't mention present-day science

hope this helps