Question

Read the following excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson's Essay in the Art of Writing and find the correct answer:

Answer 1

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys. In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind. And perhaps in aesthetics the reason is the same: those disclosures which seem fatal to the dignity of art seem so perhaps only in the proportion of our ignorance; and those conscious and unconscious artifices which it seems unworthy of the serious artist to employ were yet, if we had the power to trace them to their springs, indications of a delicacy of the sense finer than we conceive, and hints of ancient harmonies in nature. […] I must therefore warn that well-known character, the general reader, that I am here embarked upon a most distasteful business: taking down the picture from the wall and looking on the back; and, like the inquiring child, pulling the musical cart to pieces.

Answer 2

THE QUESTION: What is the difference between the two terms in bold?

Answer 3

BOLD TERMS: analysis AND inquiring

Answer 4

THE OPTIONS:
A The author first uses the word "analysis" to explain what people should never do, but then he changes his mind and says only children should be allowed.

B The author first uses the word "analysis" to refer to literature, but then he mentions the inquiring child who is unable to conduct a thorough analysis.

C The author begins with a description of analysis as a beautiful thing, but he ends with the idea of an inquiring child, who does not appreciate the art.

D The author begins with a description of analysis as an ugly thing, but he ends with the idea of an inquiring child, who is looking more closely to learn.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

D

Answer 7

Read the following excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson's Essay in the Art of Writing and answer the question:

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys.

Answer 8

In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind.

Answer 9

And perhaps in aesthetics the reason is the same: those disclosures which seem fatal to the dignity of art seem so perhaps only in the proportion of our ignorance; and those conscious and unconscious artifices which it seems unworthy of the serious artist to employ were yet, if we had the power to trace them to their springs, indications of a delicacy of the sense finer than we conceive, and hints of ancient harmonies in nature. […] I must therefore warn that well-known character, the general reader, that I am here embarked upon a most distasteful business: taking down the picture from the wall and looking on the back; and, like the inquiring child, pulling the musical cart to pieces.


Re-read the line in bold. What message is the author trying to convey through this comparison?

Answer 10

A The author thinks psychology is a pseudo-science that has no place in academic study.

B The author thinks analysis of anything can sometimes lead to a destruction of its beauty.

C The author thinks nothing is beautiful or interesting until it has been thoroughly examined.

D The author thinks people should submit more frequently to psychological exams for safety.

Answer 11

@cj49

Answer 12

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Answer 13

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Answer 14

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Answer 15

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Answer 16

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Answer 17

@Anestasia

Answer 18

@cj49

Answer 19

B

Answer 20

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Answer 21

Read the following sentence and then select the correct answer:

His cooking is tasty, he makes it filling, and all his meals are healthy.


Select the correction to this sentence that uses proper parallel structure.

Answer 22

A His cooking is tasty, fills you up, and he cooks only healthy things.

B His cooking is tasty, also you are full when you eat it, and it's healthy.

C His cooking is tasty, everyone gets full, and he likes to make healthy meals.

D His cooking is tasty, filling, and healthy.

Answer 23

@cj49

Answer 24

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Answer 25

i guess D

Answer 26

Read the following excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson's Essay in the Art of Writing and answer the question:

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys. In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind. And perhaps in aesthetics the reason is the same: those disclosures which seem fatal to the dignity of art seem so perhaps only in the proportion of our ignorance; and those conscious and unconscious artifices which it seems unworthy of the serious artist to employ were yet, if we had the power to trace them to their springs, indications of a delicacy of the sense finer than we conceive, and hints of ancient harmonies in nature. […] I must therefore warn that well-known character, the general reader, that I am here embarked upon a most distasteful business: taking down the picture from the wall and looking on the back; and, like the inquiring child, pulling the musical cart to pieces.

Answer 27

How do the meanings of the two words in bold differ?

Answer 28

A The word "analysis" suggests someone is being polite, while the word "inquiring" suggests someone is being rude.

B The word "analysis" suggests someone is being rude, while the word "inquiring" suggests someone is being polite.

C The word "analysis" suggests a scientific endeavor, while the word "inquiring" suggests a feeling of curiosity.

D The word "analysis" suggests a feeling of curiosity, while the word "inquiring" suggests a scientific endeavor.

Answer 29

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Answer 30

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Answer 31

C

Answer 32

Read the following excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson's Essay in the Art of Writing and answer the question:

Rhythm of the Phrase.—Some way back, I used a word which still awaits an application. Each phrase, I said, was to be comely; but what is a comely phrase? In all ideal and material points, literature, being a representative art, must look for analogies to painting and the like; but in what is technical and executive, being a temporal art, it must seek for them in music. Each phrase of each sentence, like an air or a recitative in music, should be so artfully compounded out of long and short, out of accented and unaccented, as to gratify the sensual ear. And of this the ear is the sole judge. It is impossible to lay down laws.

Answer 33

How does the author's syntax in this paragraph mirror his message?

A The author is trying to demonstrate that most writing uses too many words.

B The author is trying to demonstrate the effect of long sentences and short ones.

C The author is trying to demonstrate that most writing uses too few words.

D The author is trying to demonstrate that writing a book can be complicated.

Answer 34

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Answer 35

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Answer 36

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Answer 37

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Answer 38

@babyblue123

I'm taking this pellet right now, amazed how you can't just read the question and pick the best answer. its like a 2nd grade flutterin test lmfao