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AP English Language and Composition 6.9 Passage Drill 192 Views


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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the passage which statement with the author most agree with

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And our potential answers are right here To be fair

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this passage is only a portion of the full article

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

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

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

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sherlock holmes impression and making it guess well the author

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spends a good portion of the article talking about the

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

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who work around the mechanical arts the world will be

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considered blue collar workers However he never specifically mentions blue

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collar workers or suggest that those who work in the

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mechanical arts were required to learn the fine art Theo

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author also never suggests in the passage that he or

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any other regular artists should be instructed in the mechanical

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

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we study this entire passage it becomes clear that the

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authors main passages to discover at its core what makes

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certain art and by extension the artist who created it

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good true questions about who and when and how artist

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

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

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know what this point what makes art or an artist

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good After he often laid out what he wanted to

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discover He stated in line twenty for that purpose And

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learning these things is not for mere pleasant speculation on

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things that have been but for instant direction of those

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

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

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concern for those who will be taught art in the

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

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