<p>official sat study guide: blue book
p 457 question 10:
in lines 1-4, waverly characterizxes June’s advertisement as being…</p>
<p>The answer says (A), but I didn’t find any text that supports the answer…</p>
<p>help plz!!</p>
<p>Waverly is making fun of the advertisement as being too simplistic. It’s sort of implied through June’s embarrassment.</p>
<p>how is it implied?
Wouldn’t “humours and effective” be the better answer?
This is the collegeboard’s explanation for why (d) is wrong:
Choice (D) is incorrect. Waverly’s criticsm of June’s advertisement is an attack disguised as a joke. Waverly does not laugh “in a lighthearted way” because she thinks June’s work is humorous but because the laughter allows Waverly to sneak insults into a social setting. Furthermore, Waverly implies that the ad is too blunt and obvious to be effective.</p>
<p>I think this question was designed very poorly, how is it implied that it is an insult disguised as a joke? Where in the passage can that be inferred?</p>