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SAT Reading: Recognizing the Rhetorical Impact of Figurative Language 1 Views


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Fake guards abusing fake prisoners in a fake jail. What could go wrong in this SAT Reading video?


Transcript

00:02

alright just a couple more to see whether you can read or not rego as if

00:06

using the lines 1991 gone off the rails most likely means that does it what all [text on screen]

00:11

right well the correct answer here's got to be see fake guards abusing fake [happy prisoner and guard]

00:15

prisoners in a fake jail what could possibly go wrong yeah everything

00:20

apparently the use of figurative language refers to trains on train [tiny train]

00:23

tracks if a train goes off the rails it's no longer following the specified

00:27

path that it's supposed to that it promised to when it put itself on there [train wreck]

00:32

I think I can I think I can right it's out of predicted control in this

00:35

situation like a derailed train got out of hand and presented a danger to all [text on screen]

00:40

the same paragraph indicates that the extreme behavior was unexpected yeah so

00:44

well you can get rid of that though it's just throwing in their confusion the [writing on chalkboard]

00:47

problem that ultimately shuts things down is an ethical one not an issue of

00:51

reliability so get rid of be there and the experiment obviously did encourage

00:55

questionable behavior but the term gone off the rails connotes more a lack of

01:00

control than surprised

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