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AP English Language and Composition 4.1 Passage Drill. Which of the following does the speaker present as similar?
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- 00:00
Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
- 00:05
by shakespeare This guy killed off more people than jack
- 00:08
the ripper All right well here's the phrase read it
- 00:14
odyssey experience more dying people I special All right we're
- 00:31
ready Which of the following ideas does the speaker present
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- 00:35
as similar And here the potential answers All right read
- 00:39
them and weep a lot A lot of death All
- 00:44
right so what are we being asked Well we have
- 00:47
five answer choices and each one is a pair of
- 00:49
ideas were supposed to find the two that the speaker
- 00:53
refers to his being similar So even if we personally
- 00:57
feel immortal when we watch twilight well it doesn't matter
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It's all about the speaker Let's take these things one
- 01:03
by one and okay we'll start with the immortality thing
- 01:06
and twilight So here's the line where the speaker waxes
- 01:09
about twilight his physical life was but as an embryonic
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stage a coming up out of darkness a twilight and
- 01:17
dawn before the sunrise of that life of the world
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to come which he was to enjoy here after ok
- 01:25
so he's saying that shakespeare is immortal in a sense
- 01:28
but it's more than dawn that relates to that immortality
- 01:31
Twilight part refers to the end of his physical life
- 01:35
So no matter how much his memory may live on
- 01:37
he probably didn't rise up out of his grave the
- 01:40
night he was buried and start writing macbeth to the
- 01:42
revenge this time It's personal All right so what about
- 01:46
choice b Playing an instrument and delivering a speech Speaker
- 01:51
compares playing the violin to conducting one's life which isn't
- 01:54
quite the same thing is making a speech oh skippy
- 01:59
see unconscious and conscious memory close but it is actually
- 02:04
unconscious and conscious lives that air compared not memory who
- 02:09
settled We wish our unconscious memory would tell our conscious
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memory where we left our car keys That happens a
- 02:15
lot Wait till you get older All right how about
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de death and money in line thirty three the speaker
- 02:20
refers to the life after death as being like money
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not death itself so he is out But which leaves
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us just with e this better be right shakespeare and
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teachers And yet this is the one speaker says that
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shakespeare in teachers both attain immortality through their work So
- 02:35
it is other similarities He doesn't mention well they both
- 02:40
love standing in front of crowds of people they both
- 02:42
like using big complicated words and they both really like 00:02:45.24 --> [endTime] strip steak Not sure why that is
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