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AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 1. To what idea does the phrase "my opinion" in line 49 refer?
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- 00:03
You look like you could use a shmoopy question, you really do.
- 00:07
This thing again? Yeah, sorry... but hit pause and review the passage if you could use a refresher...
- 00:30
To what idea does the phrase "my opinion" in line 36 refer?
- 00:35
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:39
Ok, what is this question asking? It wants to know if we understand the text directly preceding this whole "my opinion" business.
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- 00:46
We know that we're supposed to look at what comes before it, because the speaker says
- 00:50
"deliver my opinion to him on this matter..."
- 00:53
Uh... what matter? It must have been... whatever he was talking about a second ago...
- 00:58
...which, if we review the text, was the idea of the king making use of struldbrugs as "wise
- 01:03
and able counselors." So it sure seems like it's answer D here,
- 01:07
but let's make sure by taking a quick look at the other choices...
- 01:11
A can't be right. You can't sequester a group of people... or struldbrugs... from
- 01:14
a place where they don't exist in the first place.
- 01:20
B and E are out, because they're... kind of out of left field. They're just not what
- 01:24
the speaker is talking about right before he hops up onto his... struldbrug soapbox.
- 01:31
The speaker's love of struldbrugs is clear, but in lines 18 to 19 he talks about how people
- 01:36
are just... born that way. It isn't a choice. But, just drop it.
- 01:41
So yeah... our answer is D.
- 01:43
Now if you'll please excuse us, we're going to untie our tongue...
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