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<p>In the Sandro passage, there was a question about what his opinions are when the narrator uses rhetoric when talking about her beliefs on chemistry. Anyone remember question and the answer or answer choices?</p>

<p>Critique a trend is not the answer since the entire passage essentially critiqued America’s obsession with celebrities, thus it should be re-emphasizing a point which is of critiquing the trend. </p>

<p>The archaeologist was also flippant, because she later on mentioned that the reporter didn’t believe her but she said what she wanted nevertheless about her being crazy about why she does her job. Also, the other choices didn’t work, and flippant being the only word i didn’t know from choices was left, thus it should be correct answer.</p>

<p>This was harder in terms of SC and passage reading than march when i got 760 in cr. I’m looking at 3/4 wrong</p>

722

<p>Wouldn’t you be right because you chose the answer that fits?</p>

723

<p>It was near the end of the first paragraph in the 2nd celeb passage.</p>

<p>He said something along the lines of “The thing that bothers me most about his list is that i’ve done everything on it”</p>

<p>Either way, the author didn’t come off as conceited at all, and the description near the lines that the question mentions is fairly self-deprecatory.</p>

724

<p>I thought humble was a choice… but they’re all starting to blend together.</p>

725

<p>Let’s keep this organized.</p>

<p>Who else got confessional?</p>

<p>It was critique a trend because in those last passages he really started talking about the loss of a serious society, whereas in the previous paragraphs it was basically a runown of America’s fascination with celebrities, not necessarily in a bad way.</p>

726

<p>i said rhetorical was an insubstantial way to develop ideas, or something along those lines</p>

727

<p>JNE23- No, he said that what he LIKED most about the list is that he had done everything on it. </p>

<p>That’s what I read! I hope.</p>

728

<p>hmmn. remember the “standard of value” thing? that was in the middle of the passage, and i thought that was pretty critical already</p>

729

<p>Confessional was the answer for the authors tone in the first part of the 2nd celeb. passage.
He was confessing that he’s done the things on Edmund wilson’s list.</p>

<p>For the Sandro passage rhetoric question, i think the answer i chose was something like “Rhetoric is not useful for making intelligent points” or some bs like that.</p>

730

<p>yea i said the same as JNE23 and van_sant about the rhetoric</p>

<p>was the one about the archaeologist about her friends not readiing her book because it lacked scholarly something?</p>

<p>and what was the answer to the one that asked when the chemist was 20 yrs old, what did he think of chemistry or something</p>

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<p>@JNE23: I think I put that rhetoric answer, you remember any other choices?</p>

732

<p>The whole flippant controversy right here…</p>

<p>definition of flippant according to m-w:
lacking proper respect or seriousness</p>

<p>definition of frank according to m-w:
marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression 2 a: unmistakably evident</p>

<p>the archaelogist saying “I’m just crazy” In the context of the passage to the REPORTER can seem like it lacked proper seriousness but at the same time it was marked by free and sincere expression. ny times even said that she told what she wanted to say which is sincere dont you think. it is also pretty evident that her statement is correct because she is not what one would call a “normal” archaeologist. i put frank, but frankly (no pun intended) it could go either way.</p>

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<p>For the rhetoric…</p>

<p>was it the questionable form of explanation for a professor?</p>

734

<p>I either put “Rhetoric” or “professors cant use rhetoric”… i think I chose the latter:(</p>

735

<p>@JNE23: I think I put that rhetoric answer, you remember any other choices?
@yettiddqq8: You already know that the narrator is a goofball and likes to instigate arguments with colleagues, does not take the reporter too seriously, and likes to be provocative in relating his profession to garbage collecting. Frank means sincere honesty, no ulterior motive; that doesn’t really work as well as the flippant nature of the narrator.
@van_sant: if you want to think about it that way, critiquing the trend would be reemphasizing the point, but I think it gets truly harsh the third paragraph.</p>

736

<p>Yetti… she ended the piece by saying that she didn’t think the reporter believed her. Thus, the reporter thought the answer was flippant, even though the author was intending to be frank.</p>

737

<p>woah, the word compunction was on there again? it was on the march one as well</p>

738

<p>oh darnn i erased flippant and decided to omit ■■■.</p>

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<p>and he is being sincerely honest when he says I’m just crazy because it’s pretty apparent based on the context of the rest of the passage that he is crazy and the reporter can see this. he is an out of the ordinary archaelogist. I’m not saying flippant is incorrect, but I don’t see why frank cannot be correct yet.</p>

740

<p>The reporter thinks he is “flippant” because of the last line: somewhere along the line of “I don’t think he believed me.”</p>