Questions+37-39

=Question 37= This question aims to test your ability to recognize literary elements of text. You must know what an analogy, humor, irony, a paradox, and personification are in order to recognize them. The question also asks you to identify the sense of the paragraph. Here, you must keep things simple; this merely refers to a perception of information. The question can therefore be rephrased into, "What device is used to describe how someone perceives information?" In this case, the information is beauty; the beauty in numbers is compared to the beauty in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Therefore, an analogy is used, and the correct answer is A) analogy. No instances of the other choices appear in the paragraph, so the other answers are incorrect. =Question 38= This question simply wants you to name the tone of the speaker. You need to know what all of the choices mean in order to answer the question. Other than reading the passage to get a sense of the tone, no procedural knowledge is required. =Question 39= This question is designed to make you read the passage carefully for its structure. No special knowledge should be required for this question; you may want to know what an anecdote is, but that is not the correct answer, anyway. The only way to answer this question is to read the passage and note the absence or presence of each choice. After reading the passage, it is apparent that the author only used B) a dictionary definition in the passage. There are no instances of the other options.
 * Choice A, puzzled, may seem correct because the passage mentions how people who see beauty in numbers cannot make others see the same beauty. However, the author is not puzzled, and the passage does not pose questions.
 * Choice B, objective, is correct because the author does not insert his or her own opinion into the passage at any point.
 * Choice C, skeptical, is incorrect because the author does not articulate a position on the topic.
 * Choice D, confrontational, is incorrect because the author makes no stand on the topic.
 * Choice E, condescending, does not make sense. The author was not condescending.