Re: If good taste has the vampire genre to be tired and trite, t
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23 Dec 2023, 11:40
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This is a tough question because the word [A] found is being used in a different sense than is typical. To make matters worse, the usual sense of found has the synonym discover, answer choice [D]. The fact that [D] sounds right if you plug it into the blank makes this a fiendishly difficult question. What, though, does it mean to discover something to be “trite”? Would you say, after watching a generic film, that you discovered it to be trite? Perhaps not. You would, however, say that you found it trite. In this sense, found means that you offered a judgment. The only synonym is [B]. Need this sentence explained in more detail? Breaking the sentence apart makes it easier to analyze. If good taste has the vampire genre to be tired and trite, “Good taste” refers to people who have good taste in art/movies. They have vampire movies to be a bad type of movie. What would people with good taste do to a movie when they judge it to be bad? They would be describing or labeling it. The closest fit for these are: [A] found and [B] deemed. Potentially, [D] discovered and [F] anticipated could work, but as discussed above, “discovered” doesn't really match the sense of judgment we need (it's more about finding out an objective fact), and “anticipated” refers to a something that hasn't happened yet, whereas this sentence is talking about a current discussion.
the entertainment industry surely is not listening At the beginning of the sentence (“If good taste has the vampire genre to be tired and trite . . .”), it’s determined that people with good taste probably don’t like vampire films. However, the sentence follows this up by saying, “the entertainment industry surely is not listening”: this means that even though people with good taste dislike vampire films, the entertainment industry is “not listening” to their opinion, since they continue to create more and more vampire films (described by the third part of the sentence, below). for every bloodsucker baring fangs there is a hack bearing some script. This is a figure of speech: when you say, “for every X, there is a Y,” that means that there are a lot of both Xs and Ys. In this sentence, it’s saying that there are a lot of vampires (“bloodsucker baring fangs”) and a lot of bad scriptwriters (“a hack bearing some script”). Here’s an example of the “for every X, there is a Y” structure: For every pair of shoes she buys, there is a purse that she needs to buy to match. This sentence is describing a woman who buys a lot of shoes, and every time she buys shoes, she also buys a purse that matches it. It’s a pretty trivial sentence, but it implies that the woman buys a lot of shoes and also a lot of purses. Knowing this, you can make the following summary: “people don’t like vampire movies, but the entertainment industry keeps on making them; there are a lot of scripts for vampire movies.”