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...item writers should feel free to use literary terminology in their questions for the reading section. Words that one would typically use only in a literature class--simile, personification--had always been avoided on the SAT, on the theory that a student should get credit for being able to comprehend the phrase "Youth is wasted on the young" even if he doesn't know to call it a paradox. No more. Although the committee decided that the most arcane lit terms (metonymy, for instance) won't appear on the SAT, terms like simile are now fair game...
...continue to bash the French as well as most other foreigners because Americans don't understand--and don't measure up to--most foreigners. Very few Americans are bilingual or multicultural, as many foreigners are. Foreigners are just better educated than Americans. One often criticizes things one does not comprehend. We Americans simply don't understand the French and never will until we become better educated, multilingual and multicultural--in other words, more sophisticated, like the French! ANN VAIDEN Florence...
...Thoreau had written his essay in Atlanta, he would have noted that most people here cannot comprehend the motivation behind sauntering anywhere. And as they gaze at me from behind the tinted windows of their road raging vehicles, it shows. One driver even pulled over to ask me if I was having car trouble...
...series Hitler: The Rise of Evil [TELEVISION, May 19] reported that many people were concerned that this biography of Adolf Hitler would risk humanizing the tyrant--as if this were a bad thing! What better way to combat evil than to understand it in its full context? We must comprehend all the facets--human and inhuman--of Hitler's life in order to appreciate fully the horror that his hate brought to the world. In refusing to pay attention to the disturbing ways in which Hitler may have resembled a normal person, the world runs the risk of allowing another...
...they are, as I can, you would give them all the respect in the world,” Moulton wrote in the letter to his brother. “All of these young kids are...facing challenges, fears and experiences most people on the home front could not even comprehend...