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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 3.3 Summary. Which of the following best describes the main idea of this passage?


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00:01

We speak student!

00:04

[ musical flourish ]

00:07

And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by ancient geeks.

00:11

Uh, Greeks.

00:12

Because a society that ran on hedonism and grapes,

00:15

well, they must have known somethin'.

00:17

All right, check out the following passage.

00:19

Sappho.

00:20

[ mumbles ]

00:30

All right, which of the following best describes the main idea of this passage?

00:33

And here are the potential answers.

00:35

[ mumbles ]

00:40

Sappho.

00:41

She had the name of a modern-day pop star,

00:44

but, uh, was about a thousand times more literate.

00:47

All right, well, so which of these statements best summarizes

00:50

the passage on Sappho?

00:52

We can begin by eliminating option B.

00:54

This one's completely false. Only scraps of Sappho's

00:57

work have been left behind.

00:59

Unless we're somehow redefining "fragments" as a great body of work,

01:02

we can rule this choice out.

01:04

While option A is true, it's only mentioned briefly

01:06

in the passage, so this statement can't be the passage's

01:08

main idea.

01:10

Also, Sappho wrote about other things, such as

01:13

a daughter and maybe some other stuff. [ clears throat ]

01:15

Well, with all of the mystery surrounding her,

01:17

she probably had a few hidden talents, too.

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Option D may be an accurate statement, but there's no mention

01:22

of women's freedoms in the passage.

01:25

Pretty safe to assume that if something's not even mentioned,

01:27

it's not the main idea.

01:29

Instead, the passage explains that, while we have

01:31

very little knowledge of Sappho's work,

01:34

what we do have is enough to make her

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a Greek poetry superstar.

01:37

So let's sing an ode on a Grecian urn and select option C.

01:41

And now, let's thank the Greeks for their gifts of

01:44

resplendent poetry and toga parties.

01:47

Yeah. Well, at least some of which live on today.

01:49

Woo! [ hums a tune ]

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