Answer C was my gut instinct, however I chose D as I felt that "all cultures" was significantly different than "diverse cultures" and somewhat of an unreasonable conclusion. This is a good lesson that although it may not be exactly true per say, it is still "correct" if it is more strongly supported than the other answers.
I chose answer choice A because I did not think the word "borrow" implied that storytellers from diverse cultures were intentionally using each others themes and ideas in their own stories and "copying" them. I thought it was simply acknowledging that there were common themes in their works. For example, if I made my own LSAT Course all on my own and it happened to be identical to 7Sage, I would still be accused of "borrowing" their content. So the takeaway I have is that "borrowing" implies the intention to copy, and eliminates the possibility that storytellers unintentionally used common themes in their stories.
@BillyM_ Another example is I locked myself in my room and made an 808s heavy rap song about being a lonely loner trying to free my mind at night, people would say I was borrowing from Kid Cudi's song Day n Night. I guess people accusing me of borrowing from Cudi would be trying to prove that I was copying Kid Cudi intentionally. Even though I didn't intend to borrow from Cudi, I still did. I guess I could argue "copying" doesn't depend on intention, while borrowing does. I'm getting to far into the weeds, but just wanted to write our my thinking.
what originally threw me off was the "all cultures" in answer choice C; it seemed like a pretty strong claim to draw based on the stimulus. But compared to the rest of the answer choices, I now see that it is the best.
I don't think that "borrow" is so literal a term as to always signify that something is being adopted in the same epoch / cultural moment that it was first used / created. You can certainly borrow from authors of the past, as a modern writer, can you not?
Very educational dissection, thank you. Couple of observations: 1/ this long sentence appears to have lost its verb along the way: "Just because we now know that storytelling appears to be a universal aspect of culture and language does not the storytellers themselves have known it all along, especially not those from distant epochs." 2/ it may be worth highlighting that "all of the world’s cultures" in (C) seems to directly correspond to "a universal aspect of both past and present cultures" in the stimulus (all of the world’s literally means universal).
Are we suppose to know what epoch and diverse cultures were cause I just thought they were two different groups.... not like ohh they are really different I thought they were just geographically different.
I got the timed section incorrect but took my time in the blind review and then got it correctly. Slow and steady wins the race when you are just starting out.
I understand that it does not explicitly talk about "importance" of storytelling, making answer D wrong. But answer choice C seems too broad in my opinion. Aren't we not supposed to generalize based on one specific topic being talked about, aka storytelling?
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Answer C was my gut instinct, however I chose D as I felt that "all cultures" was significantly different than "diverse cultures" and somewhat of an unreasonable conclusion. This is a good lesson that although it may not be exactly true per say, it is still "correct" if it is more strongly supported than the other answers.
@Leahmclell1 SAME
im doing so much better by not overthinking my first choice!!
I chose answer choice A because I did not think the word "borrow" implied that storytellers from diverse cultures were intentionally using each others themes and ideas in their own stories and "copying" them. I thought it was simply acknowledging that there were common themes in their works. For example, if I made my own LSAT Course all on my own and it happened to be identical to 7Sage, I would still be accused of "borrowing" their content. So the takeaway I have is that "borrowing" implies the intention to copy, and eliminates the possibility that storytellers unintentionally used common themes in their stories.
@BillyM_ Another example is I locked myself in my room and made an 808s heavy rap song about being a lonely loner trying to free my mind at night, people would say I was borrowing from Kid Cudi's song Day n Night. I guess people accusing me of borrowing from Cudi would be trying to prove that I was copying Kid Cudi intentionally. Even though I didn't intend to borrow from Cudi, I still did. I guess I could argue "copying" doesn't depend on intention, while borrowing does. I'm getting to far into the weeds, but just wanted to write our my thinking.
what originally threw me off was the "all cultures" in answer choice C; it seemed like a pretty strong claim to draw based on the stimulus. But compared to the rest of the answer choices, I now see that it is the best.
@LaneyWilliams Same! The word all tripped me up
I don't think that "borrow" is so literal a term as to always signify that something is being adopted in the same epoch / cultural moment that it was first used / created. You can certainly borrow from authors of the past, as a modern writer, can you not?
#sad
"The correct answer choicer is not always the ideal answer choice" WHAT!!!! LOL My head just blew off. hahaha
I'm soooo confusedddd. Sometimes were supposed to infer what the writer is saying, sometimes inferring or assuming is a trap..I just don't know
Very educational dissection, thank you. Couple of observations: 1/ this long sentence appears to have lost its verb along the way: "Just because we now know that storytelling appears to be a universal aspect of culture and language does not the storytellers themselves have known it all along, especially not those from distant epochs." 2/ it may be worth highlighting that "all of the world’s cultures" in (C) seems to directly correspond to "a universal aspect of both past and present cultures" in the stimulus (all of the world’s literally means universal).
Went over time a little but still got it
im getting this, im not sure if I'm getting it but im getting it
EZ PZ
somehow clutched this with time to spare but for a level 3... that was hard
I got this one right away just by thinking " How do we know this?". I thought C was the most reasonably sounding answer on the actual and blind, YAY.
C threw me off with the "all" wording lol
ALL? This was so not fair omg
Are we suppose to know what epoch and diverse cultures were cause I just thought they were two different groups.... not like ohh they are really different I thought they were just geographically different.
yea this one cooked me
bruh my dumbahh had C and then i changed it to trap answer B :(
I got the timed section incorrect but took my time in the blind review and then got it correctly. Slow and steady wins the race when you are just starting out.
I understand that it does not explicitly talk about "importance" of storytelling, making answer D wrong. But answer choice C seems too broad in my opinion. Aren't we not supposed to generalize based on one specific topic being talked about, aka storytelling?
yayayay got it right :)
Why did this one make no sense to me, even for the Blind Review? Was the text not clearly related to "stories and storytelling" specifically?
got it right but it wasn't the "all" that threw me off about c, its that "interests and concerns" aren't mentioned in the stimulus at all.
@jmcconnell1 the common themes can be thought of as interests/concerns e.g. creation or mystical beings