<p>What was the primary purpose of the archaeologist passage?</p>
<p>The Critical Reading was way harder for this SAT.</p>
<p>yoyo, characterize</p>
<p>to convey character qualities</p>
<p>whoa was it convey teh personality of the speaker?</p>
<p>cuz i put to satirize the job of an archeaologist</p>
<p>ii suck at cr though so i wouldnt be surprised if i got it wrong</p>
<p>Ok, I guess I’ll have my last word. Someone who put sardonic please explain why I’m wrong. It asked for the tone of the last two lines:</p>
<p>“Chopin flew from her fingers” (or something along those lines)</p>
<p>Assuming it was a sardonic tone, this means that she really did not play Chopin, and was actually terrible at playing piano. Where does it suggest the above?</p>
<p>“A real prodigy”</p>
<p>Ok, prodigies still practice. You can practice, and pretend not to, and still be a prodigy.</p>
<p>I put satirize as well, although was a 50/50 between that and characterizes. I remember taking out characterizes because of what followed it, was like characterizing through " "… which bothered me because it seemed inaccurate to the passage. There was also a lot of satire involved, very obvious blatant satire. It’s debatable whether that’s the purpose or focus though…</p>
<p>how does CR exp work? is 1 ENTIRE section experimental? or are there passages from each section that are experimental?</p>
<p>and to shed more light on the passage,</p>
<p>the author says that as a child, he/she had a love for words for the imagery they evoked. she wants to stay true to this, “in spite of” career poets, literature today etc etc</p>
<p>it was a short passage, only two questions followed.</p>
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<p>it wasnt sarcastic in whether the girl played or not. there is no doubt that the girl actually played chopin. it was sarcastic in that the girl clumsily finds her to the piano, acting as if she can’t play piano, and then plays so well. this does not surprise the narrator, who sarcastically calls her a prodigy (the girl appears to be a prodigy to everybody else, except to the narrator who has heard her practice scales). the tone associated with “sardonic” also matches the tone of the narrator.</p>
<p>^i think just certain passages.</p>
<p>I put satirize the job.</p>
<p>It was to explain the personality. She is portrayed as a oddball the entire time, but she loves her job. Satire is criticism. She was not criticizing archeology (I didn’t think). What did you all put for the photographer one?</p>
<p>Averse to photographing the old?</p>
<p>2 question:</p>
<p>i am a senior and am in Ap english Literature. in this class we read so many satirical pieces as it is a big concept.</p>
<p>I learned that satirizing is when a person says something not sarcasticly, but with wry humor. it shows the fault not directly, but by severe irony sort of.</p>
<p>Ok the girl lied about being a musical prodigy. How? the narrator saw her practicing.</p>
<p>so, he knew she was a fraud.</p>
<p>so when she PRETENDED to fall and play just by chance, he was “Oh SURPRISE, she can play it!”</p>
<p>he was beign very very sardonic (wry humour) cuz she lied and wasntg a prodigy. all teh other choices didnt make sense. it ovbiously wont be awed, cuz he wasnt. had to be sardonic.</p>
<p>Get it? if not pm me.</p>
<p>skyhigh - i was thinking about that one…but i put a different one. </p>
<p>anyone know the answer choices?</p>
<p>also, is there anyway that we’ll ever know FOR SURE the answer to any of these???</p>
<p>flippant;
dismay;
platitudinous…permissible
cavalier</p>
<h2>mildly ridiculous</h2>
<p>did any one gte particular and universal for a sentence completion?
sumthing about a girl and china and immigration lol</p>
<p>tilgaham. it wasnt cuz that is just too offensive.</p>
<p>it was A. teh one with the photographer being confused or something and no table to handle the situation (heavy paraphrase here)</p>
<p>i am really really sure.</p>
<p>^yup
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<p>Yes, that was about the chinese writing or something. Answer was particular/universal. </p>
<p>Still feel the toot horn one was conceited.</p>
<p>Russian authors was experimental right?</p>
<p>god i hope so…i bombed that one. </p>
<p>@questionmark - what was the question for “dismay”?</p>
<p>@ GanD, It says directly in the passage , “He was more attuned to photoing YOUNG models”. YOUNG is said about the photographer over and over.</p>
<p>^speaking of that question, i put “uncertainty”. dismay just seems too powerful. according to rocketreview…uncertainty is a really “defendable” choice</p>
<p>its definitely flustered in a new situation…and it wasnt because she was old, it was b/c she wasnt attractive like the models he usually worked with.</p>