<p>does anyone remember the last question of the passage about the archaeologist?
it was after cavalier and asked what a word meant</p>
<p>I think flippant?</p>
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<p>This is a solid breakdown. Makes it much more clear imo. I put some of my differences in bold.</p>
<p>Now let me explain some of them.</p>
<p>I already did pompous over flippant a few pages back, but obviously people don’t go BACK pages really, so if anybody wants, I could explain my reasoning again (not saying it’s right, just explaining my reasoning.)</p>
<p>Unfortunate acquiesce with celebrity culture The author would have been disappointed with the resultant philosophy that arose with celebrity culture, that is, that some people feel the need to pursue fame needlessly. </p>
<p>Critique a trend - The author was talking about the rise of celebrity culture and how all of society is being overcome by this culture. He/she (don’t remember) is talking about the progress of celebrity culture and it’s prevalence in our society. It is becoming increasingly dominant, thus it is a trend. The author obviously opposes this trend, and thus, he was critiquing the trend.</p>
<p>Maintain - At first I considered grasp. But if you look back, the sentence was “To grab and hold the audience’s attention.” Now then, if you already have grab previously in the sentence, grasp makes it redundant. “To grab and grasp the audience’s attention” vs “To grab and maintain the audience’s attention.”</p>
<p>I agree with the above besides your pompous/flippant.</p>
<p>Oh, and I believe shamelessly conceited should be mildly ridiculous.</p>
<p>The literary pursuit one I don’t remember - I put the choice about tracing the Louaisana childhood of the narrator through literature.</p>
<p>i don’t remember defile at all…was it experimental?</p>
<p>Again, it MUST be mildly ridiculous.</p>
<p>How could the author possibly be shameless, when earlier in the passage he confesses that he’s upset about commiting all the things on edmund wilson’s list.</p>
<p>Not to mention, every answer is supposed to be supported by the passage, and no more than 1 line away is the word “comical” describing his actions.</p>
<p>He’s far from conceited as well, since he’s only doing those actions because he feels he needs to in order to further his career, not because he feels he deserves the attention/fame.</p>
<p>Somebody want to update the list with the general consensus? I think defile was experimental.</p>
<p>Yea, i think trace the path of literary pursuit or w/e might be wrong.</p>
<p>It was more about the author searching for literature that reminded him of his childhood.
I can’t quite remember, but if there was a choice along these lines, then I think “literary pursuit” is wrong.</p>
<p>Unless the literary pursuit choice included “childhood” in it. Anyone remember?</p>
<p>I definitely put down the choice about the narrator was searching for literature reflecting his Louisiana childhood.</p>
<p>OMMGGG. I think I might have screwed up the SC. Im doing okay on the passage-based questions so far. I do NOT remember defile, whatsoever. Which question had superfluous for an answer???</p>
<p>I don’t remember the author saying he was upset about committing the things on the list. My interpretation was that the author believed that be conceited would be necessary, despite its sillyness, to further his career. If I remember correctly, he made a comment about how it is necessary to acquire a sort of mild celebrity to get his books read, which is what he really wanted. He doesn’t seem to regret it all, rather, he borderline endorsed the mild celebrity culture that the previous author disparaged. The booksignings, etc. are shamelessly conceited because the author realizes that that he must be a little conceited about his own work to increase its popularity, and thus has no shame about doing so.</p>
<p>for the louisiana main idea question, i put down the “childhood” one as well. however, im starting to have doubts about it b/c the word was “recapture”…im not sure if the author moved from the south or something, he was only a teenager at the time</p>
<p>Also… what about the question that had answers such as “confessional,” and “humble?” I think it was in relation to the tone of one of the paragraphs… but that’s all I remember.</p>
<p>@10jarsle: he uses the term “‘paper’ horn”; that should be an indicator. Besides, he calls it comically pompous in the passage.
@van_sant: at the top of the passage, in italics, it said that the author moved from Louisiana to California.</p>
<p>yep yep I chose the one where the author was looking for his childhood or whatever.</p>
<p>I put confessional for that question (2nd passage for celebrity) because he basically said he would do it all again if given the chance.</p>
<p>wasn’t there ‘incapable of’ in sc too?
and i can’t remember the question about
“natural characteristics”
can anyone tell me?</p>
<p>oh nice…i love it when im wrong :)</p>
<p>oh no, i didn’t put confessional for that one…what were the other choices?</p>
<p>@rella1234: yes the incapable of one was the first question about turkey’s flying.</p>
<p>YESSS… there was confessional!</p>