ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos


Test Prep Videos 223 videos

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 4
842 Views

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 4. As which of the following is the object being personified?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 3
515 Views

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 3. How is Burne's view of pacifism best characterized in lines 57 through 67?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 5
245 Views

AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 5. Death is primarily characterized as what?

See All

AP English Language and Composition 6.9 Passage Drill 192 Views


Share It!


Description:

AP English Language and Composition 6.9 Passage Drill. Which statement would the author most agree with?

Language:
English Language

Transcript

00:00

Sorry And here's your shmoop too sure brought to you

00:05

by the world's greatest detective We tried to figure out

00:09

who held that title but there's a reason why we've

00:12

never won that particular award All right we'll check out

00:14

the following passage It's a long one so get comfy

00:17

maybe grab some snacks We'll wait and we're just gonna

00:21

mumble With headlines Man Okay here's The question based on

00:34

the passage which statement with the author most agree with

00:39

And our potential answers are right here To be fair

00:45

this passage is only a portion of the full article

00:47

so from what we've been given there's no way to

00:50

know for certain what the author's final conclusions about art

00:53

education will be We'll just have to do our best

00:55

sherlock holmes impression and making it guess well the author

00:59

spends a good portion of the article talking about the

01:01

mechanical arts and that's true that most of the people

01:04

who work around the mechanical arts the world will be

01:06

considered blue collar workers However he never specifically mentions blue

01:10

collar workers or suggest that those who work in the

01:13

mechanical arts were required to learn the fine art Theo

01:16

author also never suggests in the passage that he or

01:19

any other regular artists should be instructed in the mechanical

01:22

art it's our pal sherlock would say In fact as

01:27

we study this entire passage it becomes clear that the

01:30

authors main passages to discover at its core what makes

01:33

certain art and by extension the artist who created it

01:37

good true questions about who and when and how artist

01:41

part simply aren't is important to him at this age

01:45

And furthermore the author makes you clear That he doesn't

01:48

know what this point what makes art or an artist

01:51

good After he often laid out what he wanted to

01:54

discover He stated in line twenty for that purpose And

01:57

learning these things is not for mere pleasant speculation on

02:01

things that have been but for instant direction of those

02:05

that are yet to be father doesn't want to learn

02:08

these things The study art from the past he's More

02:10

concern for those who will be taught art in the

02:12

future It sounds an awful lot like answer Good work 00:02:16.125 --> [endTime] gumshoes or sherlock Still having trouble

Related Videos

AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 7
310 Views

AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 7. The primary purpose of this passage is what?

AP English Language and Composition 4.6 Passage Drill
230 Views

Take a look at this shmoopy question and see if you can figure out which device the speaker employs the most.

AP English Language and Composition 4.5 Passage Drill
168 Views

Feel like shifting gears and answering a question about shifting tones? We've got you covered. Take a look at this question and see if you can foll...

AP English Language and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill
842 Views

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 Language and Composition 3.8 Passage Drill
225 Views

Wishing upon a star may help you pass your AP English Language and Composition test, but answering this question would be a safer bet.