[Video] Q31: No change or portrayed or drew or sketched

Explanation for Question 31 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

For 31, we're mainly just focusing on this bracketed portion right here. 2 It says this emphasis on pleasure, 3 blank criticism for being elitist. 4 And you can see from all of our choices here, 5 they're all similar words. They have, 6 they can have a similar meaning. And it's interesting because these are all very 7 artistic words. So whenever we're given a list of words 8 that have similar meanings and we're being asked to pick the best one, 9 a good strategy is to just treat this as a blank and 10 try and put your own words to fill that blank and then compare them 11 to the answers. So let's do that. 12 It says this emphasis on pleasure, blink criticism for being elitist. 13 I would say it means that this emphasis on pleasure got or 14 received criticism because it was elitist. 15 Now let's look back at our options. No change says pictured this 16 emphasis on pleasure, pictured criticism. 17 That makes it seem like the emphasis on pleasure is thinking about criticism, 18 right? Cause that's what it means to, to picture something or to picture criticism. 19 But that's not what they're trying to say here. What they're trying to say 20 is that this emphasis on pleasure received criticism. 21 So I would say it's not a, not pictured B says Porsche raid 22 this emphasis on pleasure, portrayed criticism. 23 I would not really say that you portray criticism in general, 24 you can portray things like you can portray an 25 idea. You can portray your thoughts, 26 criticism. Isn't qu...