<p>the BEST answer for the Top40 question was “what’s more.”
x^2-y = -2 (0 is definitely not correct)
arachnid question: thus is definitely the best answer
punctuation question: tedious</p>
<p>I got 3 “no errors” for the writing section</p>
<p>@t3rryd4ctyl What was the other choice(s) for the “tedious” question?</p>
<p>For the identifying error question that was:
“For people allergic to dairy and vegetarians who prefer not to eat dairy products, cereal and milk are both good sources of calcium”
Did you guys put no error or “good sources”?
I thought it would’ve been “a good source”
bleh this and the convenience store question are killing me.</p>
<p>@Yangster97 I think I also put “a good source”, but I can’t confirm this.</p>
<p>jk, I now think “good sources” is right because it has to agree with “are”</p>
<p>Since there are more people here, can we get a consensus on the arachnid question? What did you guys put?</p>
<p>What were the two choices again? I think one of them had a subject verb agreement error? The question said “the tick” and didnt the “thus” answer say are in it? Im not sure, I can’t remember.</p>
<p>@wchristen89 yea…I’m pretty sure the general consensus is “good sources” so there go my writing score aspirations. XD</p>
<p>For the tick question, I’m pretty sure I didn’t choose an answer with “thus” in it…</p>
<p>The no errors were the vegetable, elephants, ostrich egg, and the one about records right?</p>
<p>@LOLBeast1 yeah, I remember the first three you mentioned. The other one was early on in the section, number 4 I think. </p>
<p>“good sources” one was no error right?</p>
<p>Pencil Passage:</p>
<p>from ‘The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance’ by Henry Petroski</p>
<p>"These stories of absence are interesting not so much because of what the say about the lowly status of the wood-cased pencil as an artifact as because of what they say about our awareness of and our attitudes toward common things, processes, events, or even ideas that appear to have little intrinsic, permanent, or special value. An object like the pencil is generally considered unremarkable, and it is taken for granted. It is taken for granted because it is abundant, inexpensive, and as familiar as speech.</p>
<p>Yet the pencil need be no cliché. It can be as powerful a metaphor as the pen, as rich a symbol as the flag. Artists have long counted the pencil among the tools of their trade, and have even identified with the drawing medium. Andrew Wyeth described his pencil as a fencer’s foil; Toulouse-Lautrec said of himself, “I am a pencil”; and the Moscow-born Paris illustrator and caricaturist Emmanuel Poiré took his pseudonym from the Russian word for pencil, ‘karandash.’ In turn, the Swiss pencil-making firm of Caran d’Ache was named after this artist, and a stylized version of his signature is now used as a company logo.</p>
<p>The pencil, the tool of doodlers, stands for thinking and creativity, but at the same time, as the toy of children, it symbolizes spontaneity and immaturity. Yet the pencil’s graphite is also the ephemeral medium of thinkers, planners, drafters, architects, and engineers, the medium to be erased, revised, smudged, obliterated, lost - or inked over. Ink, on the other hand, whether in a book or on plans or on a contract, signifies finality and supersedes the pencil drafts and sketches. If early pencilings interest collectors, it is often because of their association with the permanent success written or drawn in ink. Unlike graphite, to which paper is like sandpaper, ink flows smoothly and fills in the nooks and crannies of creation. Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in the public. Graphite is their Q2: <dirty truth="">.</dirty></p>
<p>A glance at the index to any book of familiar quotations will corroborate the fact that there are scores of quotation extolling the pen for every one, if that, mentioning the pencil. Q1: <yet, while="" the="" conventional="" wisdom="" may="" be="" that="" pen="" is="" mightier="" than="" sword,="" pencil="" has="" come="" to="" weapon="" of="" choice="" those="" wishing="" make="" better="" pens="" as="" well="" swords.=""> It is often said that “everything begins with a pencil,” and indeed it is the preferred medium of designers. In on recent study of the nature of the design process, engineers balked when they were asked to record their thought processes with a pen. While the directors of the study did not want the subjects to be able to erase their false starts or alter their records of creativity, the engineers did not feel comfortable or natural without a pencil in their hands when asked to comment on designing a new bridge or better mousetrap."</yet,></p>
<p>Questions:</p>
<p>Q1: Which of the following rhetorical devices is NOT used in the indicated section?</p>
<p>a) word play</p>
<p>b) sarcasm</p>
<p>Q2: What does the “dirty truth” refer to in the indicated section?</p>
<p>a) messy creative process</p>
<p>b) crude artistic expression</p>
<p>For the conceive question, i put descended. For the tedious question, i put futile. for the tick question, i put an answer that said “it is…” but i dont remember if it had thus in it. I put what’s more. </p>
<p>The pencil question is 100% crude artistic expression </p>
<p>The main idea of passage one in the punctuation passage was saying how pointless proper grammar is in writing and how it doesnt effect the success of the work. His main idea was that punctuation is “futile”, or pointless. He didnt say in that passage that putting proper punctuation is boring or dull.</p>
<p>yeah i think it’s crude too. if “Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in the public.” that means pencil is without the “cosmetic” aka, crude which literally means “in a natural or raw state”</p>
<p>For the question that asked about the connection between the adults and children the line’s were “The pencil, the tool of doodlers, stands for thinking and creativity, but at the same time, as the toy of children, it symbolizes spontaneity and immaturity” This has to be similar characteristics. </p>
<p>was the answer for one of them that “conventional punctuation is unnecessary”? one of the other possible choice was that “Strict punctuation undermines creativity”</p>
<p>Sarcasm and crude artistic expression are what I would put, and critical reading is my forte xD</p>
<p>the answers were sarcasm and the messy creative process FOR SURE</p>
<p>“Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in the public. Graphite is their dirty truth.”</p>
<p>Ink is used in final copies (when ideas go out in public) and represents the final result of perfection-- graphite is the “dirty truth” that many drafts were rewritten, erased, and made again until the result was worthy enough of the “mask” or “cosmetic” of ink</p>
<p>The ink hides the imperfections of the messy creative process that is expressed purely in graphite. Crude artistic expression has nothing to do with it.</p>