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AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 5. Which line indicates the turn or shift in this poem?
- Reading / Form and Structure
- Product Type / AP English Literature
- Reading Literature / Analyze how author’s choices in structure create mystery, suspense, or surprise
- Reading Literature / Analyze how author’s choices in structure create mystery, suspense, or surprise
- Audience and Author's Purpose / Identifying effect of various authorial choices
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- 00:03
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Your chances of making it on Capitol Hill just took a serious hit.
- 00:20
Which line indicates the turn or shift in this poem?
- 00:24
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:29
If we were watching a thriller, we would call this "the twist."
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- 00:33
So... let's M. Night Shyamalan this baby and see what we get...
- 00:37
We're looking for the line -- it's a sonnet, so we've got a 1 in 14 shot -- where a shift takes place.
- 00:44
Well, the author starts out by basically saying that Death... isn't such a tough guy.
- 00:48
He says that others may call him "mighty and dreadful," but our hero feels he's... really
- 00:53
just a dreadful excuse for a villain.
- 00:55
So... where does the tone change?
- 00:57
The author never goes back on his word and decides that yes, in fact, Death IS a terrifying dude...
- 01:02
...nor does he change the subject and start talking about the weather, or say, "How 'bout them Knicks!?"
- 01:06
So it's a subtle change... but there is indeed a change.
- 01:10
At one point in the poem, the author goes from slinging insults... to backing 'em up.
- 01:14
Instead of just saying that Death isn't so scary, he starts explaining why.
- 01:17
"Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men," says the poem.
- 01:22
And this is where we get our shift. Now we know why Death shouldn't keep us up at night...
- 01:26
because he's a slave to fate.
- 01:28
In terms Breaking Bad aficionados will understand, he's not really... the one who knocks.
- 01:33
So line 9 is the one we're looking for...
- 01:36
...which means that C is our answer.
- 01:38
If you'll excuse us, it sounds like there's someone at the door. Probably just a vacuum
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cleaner salesman or something...
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