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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 7. The primary purpose of this passage is what?
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AP English Language and Composition 5.5 Passage Drill 181 Views
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AP English Language and Composition 5.5 Passage Drill. Which of the following is suggested by the speaker?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour Brought to you
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by good and evil Maybe take a turn on someone
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else's Shoulders would you okay moving on Alright We're reading
- 00:12
about floss being good or evil Evolution is um universe
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boundless possibilities religion primitive mind pre signed a scope in
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brett elation Okay which of the following is suggested by
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the speaker and hear the potential answers like notions You
- 00:36
interesting on boy Well break out your scuba gear were
- 00:38
about to plunge it Some deep thoughts All right Well
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let's begin by nixing option A speaker does a lot
- 00:44
of talking about notions of good and evil and how
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philosophers should ignore him But he never claims of society's
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Morals were created by just a few people man What
- 00:53
would have been like to be on that committee option
- 00:56
He uses some of the words the speaker uses but
- 00:58
it doesn't actually touch on any of his ideas He
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says that philosophers auto ignore ideas of faith and good
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in this Makes it sound like our destiny is somehow
- 01:08
decided by our moral values Well if the speaker thought
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this were true then telling philosophers to ignore both things
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would be an apocalyptic plot or the of a supervillain
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We'll give him the benefit of the doubt and move
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on D doesn't make the cut either This whole essay
- 01:23
is basically the speaker telling modern scholars that they're still
- 01:26
way too concerned with notions of good and evil There'd
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be no reason for him to write this essay if
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he thought modern scholars had it all figured out The
- 01:34
statement cancels out the essays reason for being and there's
- 01:37
nothing more depressing than that option c is pretty close
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The speaker says material success is partly responsible for people
- 01:44
being too confident about their ability to control the world
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but he doesn't say that rich people think the world
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is fundamentally good though things have to look a little
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rosier when you're sitting on the deck of your yacht
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All right well choice b is the way to go
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The speaker directly says that it's people who are not
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on the quest for happiness that find it most In
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that case we would like to announce to the universe
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that we're definitely not trying to be happy
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