Thursday, October 9, 2008

PSAT Question Assignment

PSAT QUESTION ASSIGNMENT
You need to identify and explain the following four items in the PSAT booklet:
  • 1. Keywords, words that are important like verbs, nouns, and their adjective and adverbs, and, lastly, words like, even, although, nevertheless, etc. which indicate opposite meanings.
  • 2. Translations, synonyms, definitions, or smaller/more familiar versions of those keywords. That way, we understand exactly what is being asked.
  • 3. Finally, all those need to be put together so that you have a fluid sentence that you can now understand.
  • 4. Compose a short answer where you explain why the wrong answers are wrong and why the right answer is right.

Innocuous= innocent
The PSAT question to answer:

Although the poet’s status as a modernist master is by now all but ____________, her unsavory politics continue to _____________ many who study her works today.

  • (a) canonical .. berate
  • (b) incontrovertible .. trouble
  • (c) undeclared .. instigate
  • (d) hypothetical .. polarize
  • (e) inconclusive .. provoke

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