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ASVAB Word Knowledge: Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of these words is closest in meaning to incoherent?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 1. Which of the following best describes the speaker's attitude towards immortality?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 1. In the third paragraph, how does the author foreshadow a coming tone shift?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 1 239 Views
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 1. Paragraph 2 serves primarily to what?
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- 00:03
To Shmoop or not to Shmoop, that is... not this question...
- 00:06
Pause.... review passage... lather, rinse, repeat...
- 00:23
Paragraph 2 serves primarily to... what? And here are the potential answers...
- 00:33
Okay, so we can't just skim and look for a key term or two... we have to read the entire
- 00:38
2nd paragraph and make a judgment call.
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- 00:41
Yeah, it's a lot of words, but it won't kill us to look 'em over one more time.
- 00:44
If it does, well... then we must have had a very low pain threshold.
- 00:48
A and C are pretty sneaky choices. They throw stuff like "foreshadow" and "juxtapose"
- 00:53
out there to make us think...
- 00:55
"Ooh -- literary terms... it must be one of those." But let's not make a you-know-what
- 01:00
out of you and me...
- 01:02
While there is indeed foreshadowing in this passage, there's none in this paragraph...
- 01:06
and the struldbrugs are described, but not contrasted with ordinary people.
- 01:14
So we can kick those two to the curb. D can't be right... our speaker is totally
- 01:19
high on immortality.
- 01:21
If there are drawbacks, he certainly doesn't mention them. Although... having to spend
- 01:24
an eternity writing "Luggnaggian" on every official form might be one of them.
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And E? Nah... no discussion of class conflicts.
- 01:39
It has to be B... and that answer choice absolutely fits. The speaker does give us the rundown
- 01:45
on struldbrugs.
- 01:47
But if you ask us, this guy just likes to hear himself talk...
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