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SAT Reading: Why Does Thoreau Use the Phrase "Mechanical Aids" in this Passage?
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SAT Reading: Describing the Effect of the Word "Cacophony" in a Scientific Text 1 Views


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The world "cacophony" is entirely underrated. However, the author in this SAT Reading passage has the opportunity to use it. Click play to find out more!


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all right next up here we go the primary effect of the authors use of cacophony

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to describe urban noise is to do what [text on screen]

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okay so let's read here this finding was published in the same year that European

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researchers reported that great tits alright we just giggling their Paris

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major that's the name of the bird come on you people significantly increase the

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frequency of their songs amid the cacophony of urban noise okay

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is it a B C or D it's got to be a and gate urban noise results mix of sources [busy city scape]

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yeah well the word cacophony means a mixture of sounds so the author is [writing on blackboard]

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indicating that all this urban noise is from more than just traffic even if we [people moving around in a park]

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didn't know the meaning of the word the second sentence of paragraph three says

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that the noise comes from transportation networks from urban development and from [text on screen]

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recreational activity like little kids screaming while they're jumping rope

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we're thinking there's definitely more than one source of noise here and think [kids jumping rope]

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about the old man on the lawn you kids are driving me crazy with your baseball [man getting hit by drone]

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er your drone flying yeah alright well the author cites increased traffic noise

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but this is an example of one source not the only source so get rid of beam D [traffic]

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there the passage mentions that birds switched

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to looking for love at night when cities are quieter but the use of cacophony [writing on blackboard]

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doesn't have much to do with that idea so what if you were to see there then

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you know they just appear in the same paragraph all right moving on

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to a quieter and less funny bird species names [bird bathing]

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