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AP English Language and Composition 8.1 Passage Drill. What best describes the authorial tone in this passage?
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AP English Language and Composition 7.1 Passage Drill. What best describes the author's tone or "voice" in this passage?
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Thank you We sneak in I mean here's your shmoop
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du jour brought to you by high fashion defying common
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sense Well since about the late sixteen hundreds there are
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we done skimming It smelled like common crayfish your while
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They bathed once a year with you Okay what best
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describes the author's tone or voice in this passage And
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here are potential answers We don't see shmoop like in
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there anywhere okay so we're looking for the other's voice
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Ursula the sea witch anyone finding the voice in this
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instance means figuring out what the author's attitude is toward
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the subject on this case that topic is zoology Geology
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is the study of animals which is a science so
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let's channel our inner scientist or outer scientists or whatever
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you've got available The author maintains a pretty level tone
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never really getting too passionate none of that lovey dovey
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stuff for this astute academic so we can break it
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off with answer b what about encouraging and supportive Well
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starting online sixty the author states my purpose in the
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present work is to exemplify the general truths respecting the
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development of zoological science He uses the common crayfish to
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illustrate his point and in a footnote states if crawfish
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or not to be had a lobster will be found
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to answer the former gerard dinner vel of francois might
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not take too kindly to the blind callous comparison of
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a lobster and crawfish apparently nerve al loved those little
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critters so much Well it's said he actually walked his
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pet lobster through the streets of paris even named the
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sucker before he ate it The author makes it clear
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that the only important thing here our fax sorry feelings
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this matter of fact tone also effectively eliminates e since
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profound and reflective would be focusing more on descriptions of
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beauty and awe and this guy is definitely an owner
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vow that leaves us a and c Well the author
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doesn't sound rigid That would be more what we get
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from a strict instructor which means answer a is correct
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The author presents himself as being knowledgeable of the subject
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and present it in a way that makes sense The
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author shows Science isn't so mysterious or abstract but is
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based on logic and facts Not that there's Any logic
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in having a pet lobster but boy they're good with 00:02:28.418 --> [endTime] butter
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