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AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 3 229 Views
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 3. The tone of this passage is best characterized as what?
- Product Type / AP English Literature
- English / Voice and Tone
- English I EOC Assessment / Non-linear Plot Development
- Literary Fiction / Narration and Tone
- Literary Comprehension / Complex Inferences in Fiction
- English I EOC Assessment / Dramatic Conventions
- English I EOC Assessment / Point of View
- Reading Assessment / Purpose
- Reading Assessment / Tone
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- 00:03
You look like you could use a shmoopy question... Just when you thought you were free of this
- 00:08
passage, it keeps pulling you back in...
- 00:16
Hit pause and give 'er a skim...
- 00:37
The tone of this passage is BEST characterized as... what? And here are the potential answers...
- 00:48
This one's a question about tone, which means we can't just search for a key word...
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- 00:53
...we have to read and understand the passage as a whole.
- 00:55
Great. This is really going to cut into our Candy Crush time.
- 00:59
Okay, so let's take a look at our five choices and see which one makes the most sense...
- 01:04
...self-loathing patriotism?
- 01:08
The self-loathing part isn't a huge stretch... but we don't see this guy running down Main
- 01:12
Street swinging an American flag back and forth. Which will rule out E as well...
- 01:17
There must be a better option... Cynical resignation? Well... the first part
- 01:21
is definitely true... this guy's a major cynic. But what's the resignation part? Did he give
- 01:26
his two weeks at Wendy's?
- 01:29
In this case, "resignation" doesn't mean quitting one's job as much as just... well, giving
- 01:34
up in general.
- 01:35
And Amory has certainly given up hope that things will get any better, so... B is looking
- 01:39
pretty good here... Questioning analysis? Eh, could be... but
- 01:43
we feel a little more overwhelmed by the negativity reading this passage than we do by Amory's...
- 01:49
inquisitiveness...
- 01:50
Steadfast determination? About the only thing Amory is determined to be is... cranky. So
- 01:58
we'll have to scratch D as well. Looks like the best choice is B -- cynical
- 02:03
resignation.
- 02:04
Amory's personal motto -- if at first you don't succeed... take a nap.
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