[Video] Q45: The use of the phrases “dawdling insect” (line 6), “happily meanders” (line 27), and “unassuming bug’s encounter” (lines 28-29) in the first two paragraphs establishes a tone that is

Explanation for Question 45 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

Okay, so we have number 45 here. It says the use of the phrase 2 is doubting insect, happily meanders and unassuming bugs encounter. 3 What does that do to establish the tone? 4 Right. So we have doubting insect. 5 We have, um, happily meanders and unassuming 6 bugs encountered. Those were the three areas. These are words, 7 right? So this whole passage, we know it's a scientific passage, 8 right? And so it's pretty much written in a very academic, 9 formal tone. We're talking about, you know, 10 very complex things, how these hairs are operated, 11 how the calcium operates, right? It's a very formal, 12 very academic. But when you look at these words and phrases, 13 these are not academic phrases, right? These are very informal and not academic. 14 They kind of like add a little bit of like easiness to the passage. 15 It kind of makes the passage a little bit more accessible to readers who 16 are not doctors or PhD students or students of biology and science by 17 saying doubtedly insect. 18 It's kind of like adding some imagination to the story. 19 Happily meandered. It's like adding like a fictional aspect, 20 right? It's like something you would read in a fiction book. And he adds 21 this to an academic formal tone to make it like more accessible to people 22 who are not scientists on assuming bugs encounter. 23 That's like telling a fiction story. Right. So we're kind of moving away from 24 academic tone. So we're definitely gonna cross out a, 25 because it takes the aca...