SAT II Spanish--ridiculously easy?

Crucifymecaptain
Sun, 04 May 2008 09:38:58 +0000

This was my reasoning:

It was definitely not melancolico. There was nothing melancholic about it. I believe we can all agree on this.

On humorous, my argument is that there is a sharp difference between whether the TONE of the passage was humorous, and whether the EVENTS of the passage would seem humorous to the reader.

The passage would start out like “the dog was born in <date>”, and then it would go on by saying characteristics of the dog, but I don’t recall seeing sarcasm, wit, irony, or any of the other elements which make up a humorous piece directly from the author.</date>

Laudatorio seemed like a good answer, laudatorio meaning “inspring praise” and whatnot. However, I don’t think the parts about how the dog would reject traditional names and how he would take advantage as his position as guard could necessarily be described as exalting the dog’s “good” qualities.

Didactico to me was the best answer, given the fact that it looked like the author was trying to inform us about a special dog. Didactico usually tries to “teach” besides “informing”, so I couldn’t find any moral that was being taught. This is the answer I picked however.

Overall I thought this was a poor question, a question that would be more suited for another type of test, since tone analysis deviates somewhat from the literal comprehension of a passage.