November 2008 SAT Critical Reading

<p>there was only ONE question with the choices metaphor AND analogy as two separate choices, after a heated internal debate i went with metaphor, i think it was “quarreling friends”…dont disagree with me because no matter what twisted logic u used to decide analogy, i wont accept it :)</p>

<p>the map mislead her group because there was not water where the map said there was water. in a sense, yes she didn’t find what she expected to find (she expected to find water). this question had nothing to do with the mortar/pestle.</p>

<p>wasn’t the question, what is the significance of “quarreling friends” and it was to explain his attitude?</p>

<p>ace is correct get over it.</p>

<p>it wasnt a metaphor, arghuman82. a metaphor doesnt use “as” or “like”. in that instance, i recall “like” appearing in the sentence. BUT metaphor was an answer to a different question.</p>

<p>i agree. you can’t infer “technologies” from “tricks.” tricks could mean anything else as well, not just technlogies. but you CAN assume that since they were trying to feed a lot of people in the army, they were trying to make things cheaper, something that they wanted to continue after the war.</p>

<p>^^ yeah. it was def. analogy.</p>

<p>the sentence prior alluded to the relationship he shared with his books, then a new sentence began saying…“two quarreling friends…” so the words like or as were never in that actual sentence</p>

<p>Metaphor = answer to sentence completion
Analogy = answer to something (I remember putting that and the actual line had “like” in it)</p>

<p>What was analogy anyway? I have no clue where that goes on the list.</p>

<p>and it is NOT make things cheaper…for the last time…read the ACTUAL article!!
the article in its entirety (found online) and in its shortened form has NOTHING to say about money or being economical</p>

<p>The ambivalent relationship between Americans and what they eat is one of the main themes of Laura Shapiro’s Something From the Oven. How did we travel from the fresh, wholesome food our forefathers ate—if that is what they ate—to the endless array of processed crap we eat nowadays? How did housewives feel about themselves when they abandoned their fifty-pound bags of flour in favor of cake mixes? What drove the changes—the food industry’s pushiness, advertisers’ wiliness, or consumers’ eagerness to wolf down trainloads of salt, sugar, and preservatives?</p>

<p>Shapiro began this saga in an earlier book, Perfection Salad (1986)—a charmingly idiosyncratic look at the way home cooking changed in this country during the early part of the twentieth century. Perfection Salad covered the horrors wreaked on middle-class food when nutritionists, home economists, and other “domestic scientists” got hold of it and turned everything into Jell-O salad and white sauce. Something From the Oven picks up the story after World War II, when standardized food was already entrenched in America. (Shapiro considers the 1950s to be the period from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s.)</p>

<p>**As Shapiro tells it, the post-World War II food industry, bursting with tricks it had learned for feeding soldiers overseas, was eager to train Americans “to develop a lasting taste for meals that were a lot like food rations”—dried, reconstituted, indestructible. **The offerings included dried wines, a potato snack called Tatonuts that was touted as having “strong resistance to weather conditions,” canned hamburgers, and—I swear—frozen concentrated mineral water. Meanwhile, magazine and newspaper publishers did all they could to persuade the American housewife that she had no time to cook.</p>

<p>“When the food manufacturers moved into the kitchen, the housewife was waiting with outstretched arms,” a 1952 Business Week story claimed, and a year later Fortune reported, “The loathing with which American women seem to regard prolonged labor in the kitchen has been often noted and much interpreted.” But only by magazine editors, it seems. Actual women obstinately refused to loathe cooking. “It was true that by the '50s the staple products Americans ate all the time had undergone some degree of processing and packaging before women bought them,” Shapiro writes.</p>

<p>Niceee, Ace.</p>

<p>can someone please explain to me why it should be unique and not archetypal?</p>

<p>ace is right on the tech question.</p>

<p>anyone remember the question for the Adhere … authenticity answer and the other answer choices for the “discern” question? these were pretty easy, so i forgot them; just for clarification.</p>

<p>what was the experimental section? was it the one with willa cartha?</p>

<p>it very well could be archetypal, but the consensus agrees that it is unique. in short, it’s easier to argue for unique than it is for archetypal. unique simply fits perfectly without having to make logic for it. that doesn’t mean that when the report comes out that archetypal couldn’t be the answer…</p>

<p>is this how the analogy question went?
the author brings up “quarreling friends” in line x as a…
a.
b analogy to explain the father’s attitude
c metahor…
d</p>

<p>something doesn’t fit to me. i remember the answer for “quarelling friends” being distinctly “explains the attitude/behavior of father” and i also remember the analogy/metaphor question. are they separate?</p>

<p>Yeah, but ace–the map never said there would be water anywhere. The map was a topographical map, so in a sense it was the interpretation of the narrator that decided where there was/was not water. She went to several “promising locations,” but these are all places where she EXPECTED to find water and didn’t find what she EXPECTED to find. The map never says anything.</p>

<p>And I think “analogy to explain father’s attitude” was an answer choice. (And correct, I hope! :))</p>

<p>i put analogy to explain father’s attitude but i must say i wasn’t really sure on that one.</p>

<p>i’m almost positive i put she didn’t find what she expected to find, then. my brain get’s foggy when i try and remember all 67 CR questions. if both mislead her and didn’t find what she expected to find are choices, the answer is the latter.</p>

<p>for the squid light question paradox/dangerous one
what was the exact question?</p>