<p>analogy is “Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar”</p>
<p>i think that would rule out analogy. Personification and contrast is still up for grabs though. DAMN THIS QUESTION</p>
<p>can someone please link me the passage i really dont want to go through 40 pages :/</p>
<p>maybe we can shift the focus to the “guitar boy” passage…it seems we cannot agree on contrat or something…was the attitude of the teacher supportive or something ?</p>
<p>I am sure about extrapolate because I recognized it during the test. I never heard of expostulate, I learned it in this thread.</p>
<p>@corrinder94</p>
<p>heres the french passage</p>
<p>Yuliang is lying on his bed upstairs with her writing things. Lulled into a dreamy daze by the rain-patter on the glass, she is thinking about the old French painter from their outing; about the deft assurance with which those meaty hands captured a flowers frail beauty. The same feeling she’d had then—a thrill, blended with longing—fills her, and almost without thinking about it she pages past the day’s vocabulary in her copybook. Tongue between her lips, she makes soft gray sweeps on the paper. She adds more detail a faint line there, a smudge here. A dark crease to show the dainty fold of a leaf. The flower’s flaws—its unevenness; the unnatural cast of attempted shading—needle her. And yet she keeps on trying.</p>
<p>@muangs</p>
<p>Lucky me, I was going to test there, but they ran out of seats before I could sign up in time, so I tested somewhere else. Anyway, do you think you did poorly? Sucks to hear about that coughing guy.</p>
<p>“deft assurance” means he is painting effortlessly (deft=skilled). Your focus shouldn’t be on “exemplary” but on the “skill”. “Painstaking” makes the choice wrong because “painstaking” involves putting a lot of effort.</p>
<p>I chose the attitude of the teach to be supportive or something along those lines.</p>
<p>The Chinese artist passage
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<p>hey was the question just “which literary device is used in these lines” or was it like “which literary device is used to show …” anyone rmb?</p>
<p>@miasanmia
I remember the question was directing to the lines that referred to the sentence: “Lulled into a dreamy daze by the rain-patter on the glass, she is thinking about the old French painter from their outing; about the deft assurance with which those meaty hands captured a flowers frail beauty.” </p>
<p>And the question was like: In this sentence, what literary device does the author use? </p>
<p>If we focus on the question and single out the sentence, the author clearly used contrast. Of course if we read the next sentence, analogy becomes as likely. </p>
<p>I don’t know the ultimate answer, but I put contrast :/</p>
<p>the word “deft” modifies assurance…</p>
<p>assurance is the main soup of the passage. and assurance is certainly an attitude? a skilful attitude, or precise; painstaking means careful, thorough, much more suited to the question than “exemplary” skill. and by your logic, exemplary would make your answer choice wrong as well even if you choose not to focus on that word.</p>
<p>This was ridiculous easy question but in Amatuerism (passage) passage, the tone for one sentence (why dont we pay 10 bucks to cheerleaders of sth) of author 1 was “sarcastic” right?</p>
<p>As you wrote, painstaking means careful and thorough. In the provided lines there is no hint that French painter was drawing carefully and thoroughly. The sentence conveys a message that he painted effortlessly; it was coming naturally to him. You have to put effort to draw carefully. But the painter was drawing with deft assurance - it flowed easily.
The girl was the one who had to be careful at first. Then she was thinking of how French painter was doing it effortlessly (with deft assurance) and then she tried a spontaneous technique.</p>
<p>For the question about bats, “incensed” was the answer just to clear things up <— pretty sure about this.</p>
<p>One distinguished scientist was so indignantly incredulous that he seized Galambos by the shoulders and shook him while complaining that we could not possibly mean such an outrageous suggestion. Radar and sonar were still highly classified developments in military technology, and the notion that bats might do anything even remotely analogous to the latest trumps of electron engineering struck most people not only as implausible but emotionally repugnant."</p>
<p>^^ it can’t be “uncomprehending” - uncomprehending: showing or having an inability to comprehend something</p>
<p>the scientist didn’t have an inability to understand the theory, he understood it alright, but he was unwilling to believe in it, since he was “indignantly incredulous” (incredulous meaning skeptical/disbelieving"</p>
<p>on the other hand, “indignantly” suggests anger and vehemence (indignant: feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment)
—>incensed: verb <a href=“usu.%20be%20incensed”> trans. </a>
make very angry : she was incensed by the accusations.</p>
<p>what is the question for the word “miscellany”</p>
<p>I stay at “uncomprehending” because when I was reading the passage, I sensed no aggression out there; I sensed not being capable to understand something that doesn’t seem natural or doesn’t go with person’s common sense.</p>
<p>I think that text about shaking by the shoulders is not accurate. The one in the test was written differently.</p>
<p>I might be wrong though. If the passage was written exactly like this, then “incensed” is the right one.</p>
<p>idont see any sign of your “effortlessness” or “naturally to him” bits. deft assurance; his attitude. just that is hinting at the answer choice. “captured the beauty” may be sign of thorough or carefulness? exemplary skill is WAY TOO EXTREME for this one.</p>
<p>i also have a few questions. if anyone can help me, i will be grateful…
- the question in the short passage about scientist: is the answer “scientists should suspend their expectations on experiment results”? i just think i choose another one…but cannot remember exactly
- also about the question regarding the flammingo…on the bat question…is it colorful feathers or texture of the feather…
- the question about shadow in the chinese painter: is it tinge or bent
thx if anyone can help me</p>
<p>It is French painter’s attitude but that attitude is NOT painstaking. As I said, the one with painstaking attitude was the Chinese woman. The artist was the one who was with the different attitude. His example made her try a new technique, hence “exemplary”.</p>
<p>I’m also not sure that the scientist passage is the exact same one, because I remember the scientist saying something in the passage we were given.</p>