<p>harrypotter:</p>
<p>what was the question?</p>
<p>its not dangerous because it said what the author suggests. he doesn’t suggest its dangerous because he knows its a defensive technique. it says that they actually use the light to hide their shadows or something.</p>
<p>it was something like : which situation is most analagous to the author finding the stone artifact…</p>
<p>Wait can someone tell me the question for
“ball in the undergrowth?”</p>
<p>And… I still think
Notorious…Sophistry is right…</p>
<p>And I also doubt
“Students” indicate “specialize in poetry” is correct.</p>
<p>Oh yeah “ball in the undergrowth” is correct…</p>
<p>it was like he was trying to find a ball but found something more valuable, right?</p>
<p>yeah, he said that they use the light to hide their shadows AFTER he says the bit about being foolish. the ‘foolish’ sentence was a pivot sentence.</p>
<p>since the question is why does the author use ‘foolish’, why isn’t it ‘dangerous’? the passage stated just prior to that how using a light in open water would normally be considered a hazard. stating that a paradox exist doesn’t justify the author’s use of the word ‘foolish’, because that would mean that he would be calling the paradox foolish, while if the answer was ‘dangerous’, that means that a squid using light in the open water would normally be considered ‘foolish’.</p>
<p>Question: Why does the author use the word FOOLISH below</p>
<p>“Although it MAY SEEM foolish to hide in the dark using a light, the sea cucumber emits a light that cancels its shadow”</p>
<p>the author uses the word foolish to show how the scenario is PARADOXICAL. you would think that the sea cucumber, trying to hide itself, would not use a light, BUT IT DOES. hiding in the dark with a light is no longer FOOLISH, BUT PRACTICAL. therefore, the author particularly choose the world foolish to show how it is a paradoxical situation.</p>
<p>100%. danger was the Joe Bloggs answer or w/e</p>
<p>Cherrypicker:
i agree with you… I also think its dangerous…</p>
<p>It is “foolish” because it would normally be “dangerous”… the question asked what the author means by “foolish,” not by the whole sentence… if i recall correctly</p>
<p>for the ball in the undergrowth, it was asking what would be most like the author discovery of the grinding stone…
an unexpected treasure while you are looking for something else -> “finding a work of pottery while looking for a ball in undergrowth” or something like that was the answer i got.</p>
<p>let me simplify my argument.</p>
<p>take the first part of the sentence.</p>
<p>“Although it MAY SEEM foolish to hide in the dark using a light”</p>
<p>why would it be foolish to hide in the dark using a light?</p>
<p>because it would be dangerous, not because it would be paradoxical.</p>
<p>so why does the author use the word foolish?</p>
<p>to imply that most people would think the act of using light in open water would be risky and dangerous, thereby thinking it foolish.</p>
<p>cherry you’re arguing with your arms cut off man lol.</p>
<p>Some answers that I think are debatable:
Notorious/Sophistry in S/C
Specialization of Poetry in Poetry Passage
Dangerous (not Paradoxical) in the Sea creature passage…</p>
<p>but you have to understand the entire line (it did cite the entire line) and not just FOOLISH. he particularly inserts the hypothetical “although it may seem” fragment about being foolish in order to show the paradox. this is why bioluminescence is so special.</p>
<p>jeez i hate to be so stubborn, i apologize. i’m just very adamant about my choice</p>
<p>Sry… but what was ‘solicitous’ question again?</p>
<p>the REASON the author mentions its foolish, is not to show its dangerous…who cares that its dangerous? the passage is about the phenomenon of bioluminescence. by using the word foolish, the author can convey the paradoxical, unique situation displayed by the sea cucumber.</p>
<p>by taking the entire line into account, im 100 positive that the author uses the word foolish to show the paradoxical nature of the scenario. the fricken line is set up in a “Although it may seem…” set up. PARADOXICAL!!</p>
<p>it a contradiction!!</p>
<p>o wow…it sounds like you guys had different questions from me or something…why don’t i remember any of the passages??
quick question~
did you guys find the sat hard this month???</p>
<p>yeah, same. i just want to know the answer.</p>
<p>and the problem wasn’t referring to the sea cucumber. it was talking about the squid, who uses blue light to cancel its shadows. </p>
<p>and it cited the line number, if i’m correct. there’s no way to prove if he meant the entire line or just that word.</p>
<p>and i agree with you, ace. the sentence IS a paradox. however, if that question is correct, that it’s “Why did the author choose to use the word ‘foolish’?”, then it’s clear that he chose to use it to imply that it would seem to be dangerous, but it’s actually a safety measure. the fact that the author chose ‘foolish’ to show that the layman’s belief would be that shining light would be ‘dangerous’, is the reason why that sentence is a paradox.</p>
<p>in other words, because he used foolish to show it’s dangerous, it’s a paradox.</p>
<p>and ace, he wasn’t trying to show that it was dangerous. he was trying to show that it would SEEM to be dangerous, but it wasn’t. once again, that’s what makes the paradox. not the word foolish.</p>
<p>Guys… I know I am going over this again…
but can someone tell me
the question whose answer was “solicitous”?</p>
<p>Without the foolish part the sentence reads:
the sea cucumber uses light to cancel its shadows.</p>
<p>and the entire passage has lost its meaning. the passage is about the unique, paradoxical characteristic of bioluminesence. without mentioning that it was foolish, the reader does not immediately grasp the paradox the author is trying to convey. the author specificly, be it the word foolish or the concept, uses that line to show a paradoxical situation.</p>
<p>i think we’ve argued it to the max. let’s just wait</p>