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AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 3. What tone shift is indicated by line 49?

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What's Shmoop got to do with it?

00:08

This is your last chance to press pause and review the following passage. Aw, look who's getting sentimental!

00:24

What tone shift is indicated by line 38?

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And here are the potential answers:

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It's always nice when they give us a single line number. We can zero in a particular portion

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of the passage and not really worry about anything else.

00:44

And we love not having to worry.

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Okay, actually, since we're looking for a tone shift, we may need to know what comes

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just before it, so we can determine what the tone is shifting to.

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Let's look at lines 35 through 38:

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"That's the chance, of course," he said slowly. "How much or how little I'm taking this stand

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because of propaganda I've heard, I don't know; naturally I think that it's my most

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innermost conviction—it seems a path spread before me just now."

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Amory's heart sank.

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So, the question is really asking, why did Amory's heart sink? Did it hit an iceberg?

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Okay, let's check out the answer choices:

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Did he go from extreme hostility to mild anger? So, did he just get less angry?

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Generally when one's heart "sinks," we're not talking about anger.

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Your heart feels almost like it's in your throat when you get worked up, so we can scratch

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A, and B as well, while we're at it.

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There is certainly no levity, or lightheartedness, apparent here, so we can nix C as well.

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For option D, the despair part is definitely possible, but it's not preceded by a hint

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of hopefulness. D can't be right either.

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The correct answer is E, criticism to reflection.

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The lines leading up to line 38 feature a healthy dose of criticism, while Amory's "sinking

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heart" leads to reflection on his lack of conviction.

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Maybe he needs to get one of those inflatable heart rafts...

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