Explanation for Question 3 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question three says the simile and lines 14 through 17, 2 primarily serves which function. So let's look at the simile that they're referring to 3 here. It says it's in that yellow highlighter. 4 It says it was like a horse that no one knows how to break 5 to harness that runs wild and kicks things to pieces. 6 So the it that they're referring to here is going to be the 7 land. So this it is filled land. 8 So the land was like a horse that no one knows how to break 9 to harness that runs wild and kicks things to pieces. 10 So basically just describing the land as difficult 11 to understand puzzling. So land is puzzling. 12 So let's look here at the lines that they give 13 us in the answer choices and see which one this similarly best relates 14 to. So if you look at answer choice a in lines three through five, 15 it says it was still a wild thing that had its ugly moods. 16 And no one knew when they were likely to come or why. 17 So again, this is referring to the land and 18 this is describing the land as kind of not able to be understood, 19 right? No one knew when they were coming. 20 It was a wild thing. So this goes pretty directly with what this simile 21 is saying. So answer choice a might be a good answer here, 22 but let's look at the rest answer. Choice. B is lines five through six. 23 It says its genius was unfriendly to man. 24 So again, this, it is going to refer to the land, 25 but this isn't referring to the land as unable to be understood. 26 This is referring...