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SAT Reading 4.4 Passage Comparison 175 Views
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SAT Reading: Passage Comparison Drill 4, Problem 4
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- Informational Media Literacy / Formality and Tone
- Analyzing text structure / Analyzing part-whole relationships
Transcript
- 00:03
A Shmoop in the hand is worth two in the bush... if you can find the right buyer.
- 00:18
The tone of the sentence in lines 74-79 of Passage 2 is best characterized as...what?
- 00:32
By invoking the American Dream, a phrase we often use to describe one of the nation's
- 00:36
fundamental principles, the author signals that this passage means Serious Business.
- 00:44
Therefore, we're looking for a word that somehow goes along with that idea. Business.
Full Transcript
- 00:48
If the author were "neutral" that would mean she doesn't feel strongly one way or
- 00:53
the other about thousands of women being denied the American dream.
- 00:56
This is certainly not what's going on here. The author clearly has a strong opinion that
- 01:01
what happened was wrong. We can cross (B) off the list.
- 01:04
It's not like the author is being super intense and throwing in exclamation marks
- 01:08
at the end of every sentence...
- 01:09
But "calm" is not the right word for the way she describes these serious issues.
- 01:14
(D) is out. "Appreciative" means that a person is
- 01:17
really grateful for something.
- 01:22
The author has a negative opinion of what went down back in the day, however, letting
- 01:26
us know that she doesn't appreciate it at all.
- 01:28
(E) is totally wrong... and we don't appreciate it wasting our time.
- 01:29
Choice (C) is on the right track, for sure. No doubt, the author is disturbed by her subject matter.
- 01:33
We'll keep (C) on the table as we check out the only other choice.
- 01:37
The idea of crushing the American Dream for thousands of women makes a big splash.
- 01:41
Being dramatic is all about making big splashes,
- 01:47
so (A) knocks (C) out of contention for the correct answer.
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