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AP English Language and Composition 8.10 Passage Drill 184 Views
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AP English Language and Composition 8.10 Passage Drill. The style of the passage as a whole can be best described as what?
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jour brought to you by fashion sense because far too
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many people are fashionably senseless ever been to congress All
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right okay well let's Check outs passage from a travel
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book england eighteen thirty two Blah blah blah blah blah
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blah blah blah blah blah What All right the style
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of the passages hole can best be described as what
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Okay the style here the potential answers there's a chatty
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formal personal stern All right well here's another one of
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those questions that gives us two chances to eliminate an
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answer instead of only one Don't we just love those
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let's Take answer a for example in this passage is
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the author certainly took the classic approach of why say
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something clearly in ten words if you can confuse everybody
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with one hundred with that in mind we could easily
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say that the passage was chatty However the definition of
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the word flippant is not showing a serious or respectful
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attitude throughout the passage the author makes it very clear
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how serious she is about her subject so answer it
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doesn't fit Similarly the first part of answer b would
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work since the author is very correct in her use
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of language and grammar but formal will formally usually implies
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very strict use of convention or etiquette like starting a
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sense with similarly the way the author kind of pokes
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fun at the french and the italians as well as
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her own british culture isn't really done formally so again
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half the answer disqualifies answer b as faras answer egos
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the other is providing her analysis of american culture versus
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european culture but it's all kind of based on opinions
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She makes no effort to see things from the american
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point of view to be objective and author would have
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to be uninfluenced by personal feelings or opinions and that
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clearly doesn't happen here so we're left with c and
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d to us twenty first century people the language used
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might sound stern In fact there are times we can
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hear a bizarro mary poppins speaking to us through the
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words on the page However for the time in which
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this piece was written the language falls a bit short
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of being stearns Meanwhile the author uses the words i
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and we several times throughout the passage Writing an article
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in the first person is usually meant to give the
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reader a sense of personal connection Also there's no denying
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that the author is super earnest or sincere in what
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she's saying well with both descriptions fit in the bill
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it looks like we have our answer in c now
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let's just hope we never see That version of mary 00:02:22.325 --> [endTime] poppins again she's kind of scary
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