<p>the analogy for rich/poor was the one about the film critic</p>
<p>also i said claim</p>
<p>some people (the previous sentence didn’t make reference to people, just backlash to the time zone changes)</p>
<p>PS did anyone else write their essay on the hunger games?? :)</p>
<p>@powba, what’d you say for incredulou vs. defensive?
And does anyone remember the very first part of the writing section about the poet Rita?
It was like
In _________________, Rita…</p>
<p>1) Analogy for Rich/Poor - Film Critic
2) Claim vs. Interpretation - Claim
3) Such people vs Some people - Some people
4) Humor/Play on Words - Play on Words
5) Takes Beliefs into Account
6) Extended Personal Anecdote
7) Incredulous vs. Subjective vs. Defensive - I thought this question asked: Compared to Passage 1, Passage 2 was more …
I thought passage two was more pensive.
Unless, that is, you guys are discussing a different question.</p>
<p>Nibbling it was being defensive</p>
<p>are you just basing that off the fact that that’s the answer you got?
Also, does anyone remember the question about Rita?
@Signature, for #4, was there a different choice that said “manipulating what Norman Mclean said previously” or something like that?</p>
<p>It’s not play on words it’s humor.</p>
<p>It was so play on words. It was like “…The rivers and the landscapes are supposed to be converging blah blah blah… The only thing that is converging is my freezing fingers.” </p>
<p>Or something along those lines.</p>
<p>I did put pensive for something, can’t remember what though…It has to be humor because a play on words is usually witty or clever and ‘converging fingers’ does not manipulate words for that purpose</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it was a “play on phrase/words” since earlier in the paragraph he had said something about a river through the landscape converging and then he paralleled those same phrase/words by describing his fingers similarly</p>
<p>For the last time, consider this analogous example:</p>
<p>My mom told me I have to clean my room.
The only thing I have to do is eat a burrito!</p>
<p>Is this humorous, or is this a “play on words?” This is exactly what the guy was doing, he took the quote and changed the last part to make it funny (even I laughed when I was reading it.) A play on words usually involves homonyms made to sound funny, like so:</p>
<p>“Hurry up and get to the back of the ship,” Tom said STERNLY (because a stern is the part of the boat). This is word play; that dude did not play wit words!</p>
<p>i said play on words too because there was a similar phrase earlier in the passage.</p>
<p>… also did anyone else say ‘apologetic’ for the defensive/incredulous one?? i had it down to defensive and apologetic but i felt like defensive was a little too harsh an adjective.</p>
<p>I agree with nerdyjew<br>
because I can’t afford to get more wrong…but the funny thing is, we will all never know the correct answer to all these problems!</p>
<p>unless somebody here buys that test Q&A thing</p>
<p>Does anyone know what math section was the experimental one? I had 4</p>
<p>I will. I’m fee waiver so its free for the stupid q+a thing. But by that time I won’t care…</p>
<p>It is for sure play on words. You guys are missing the biggest part. It said did not say to “convey a humorous tone” instead it said “a shift from serious to humorous” there is a big difference. The passage as a whole transitioned into a humorous tone not because of this line, but because of lines before it. It was not a serious tone before he said it.</p>
<p>Boom, best explanation I’ve heard.</p>
<p>The question definitely did not mention serious → humorous, the answer was simply “to convey a humorous tone.”</p>
<p>That was not the BEST answer.</p>
<p>@thenerdyjew : I finished with 5 minutes ahead of time on this section because other than this question and maybe a few others it was relatively easy. I kept rereading the choices and the section that this question referred to and while playing Devil’s Advocate the reason I eliminated this choice during the test was because of the serious tone to humorous tone. </p>
<p>This was definitely a trick question though because I myself almost laughed at the portion that this was referring to.</p>