<p>why on earth would she be diffident? diffident means lacking confidence… in the last paragraph the author was saying stuff like “she probably thought I was crazy,” “I bet she still doesn’t know,” and all these haughty statements…</p>
<p>^woohoo. </p>
<p>No Disney anything on my test…i guess exper. </p>
<p>anyone remember one of the answers for a question being “nonchalant”?</p>
<p>i just remembered it…</p>
<p>i put sardonic.</p>
<p>conceited wrong? i think he notes that his behavior is like self-“___” that explained why i chose conceited</p>
<p>i didnt have recapture, was that exp?</p>
<p>@ question.</p>
<p>the answer was clearly saronic cuz he saw her practicing and lying, so when chopin came out it was not a surprise, it was the narrator being sarcastic through wry humour</p>
<p>^ haha i couldn’t remember what sardonic meant so i didnt put it.</p>
<p>i put sardonic as well</p>
<p>the piano one (with nonchalant as one answer) was definitely sardonic, it makes more sense in the context of the entire passage</p>
<p>haughty means snobbish, she wasn’t snobbish at all. she gave her answer, and then questioned whether it would suffice for the reporter or not. she was diffident which means lacking confidence. haughty is too much of an extreme word for the archaeologist</p>
<p>Conceited- Being concerned with oneself. </p>
<p>The paragraph was about “tooting one’s own horn”. Pretty sure it fits.</p>
<p>The other choice was saying he was a “vigorous writer” or something similar.</p>
<p>Damn. i just realized the one passage i did really well in was experimental.</p>
<p>^^which one?</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>
<p>Ok for Sardonic:
disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking</p>
<p>“She can play chopin of the tips of her fingers. A real prodigy.” - It did not refer to the whole passage, only these lines. I do agree that the beginning of the passage was somewhat sardonic, but these lines do not sould like it. </p>
<p>Is that sardonic? I mean, I had a real amount of trouble thinking that it was derisive or humrours, so I put nonchalant.</p>
<p>I just don’t think conceited is the BEST answer - the passage moves on to say how he would amuse crowds and what not. That seems to suggest sillyness to me. I mean tooting a paper horn is definetley a bit shameless, but I really tried to look for arrogance in the context and could not find it.</p>
<p>what were the possible answers to the tooting ones own horn?</p>
<p>tooting the horn is milldy self ridiculing himself b/c right before(or after?) he says that he talks about how Edmund Wilson would never do something like that, or whatever. and DIFFIDENT IS SOOOOOOOO WRONG!!!</p>
<p>regarding the sardonic question - “a real prodigy” she was not a real prodigy because the author heard her practicing scales over and over again. i put sardonic.</p>
<p>sardonic also means ironic</p>
<p>definitely sardonic. Sardonic means sarcastic. </p>
<p>“She can play chopin of the tips of her fingers. A real prodigy”</p>
<p>Clearly sarcastic.</p>
<p>tooting ones own horn, i believe, was “ridiculous”</p>