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Thoreau was all about simplicity; anything that took away from his vision was the enemy. Mechanical aids were one of them. Guess he had to train a...
Thoreau wants our lives to be simplified. He claims that we gain less from life when we over-complicate things.
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SAT Reading 1.9 Long Passages 204 Views
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SAT Reading Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 9
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- 00:04
Feel better, live longer...with vitamin Shmoop. Feeling an indescribable urge to re-read this
- 00:12
passage? Go ahead and hit pause... no one's stopping you.
- 00:16
The tone of the passage is...what?
- 00:26
Here are the potential answers... Of course we were all taking tons of notes
- 00:30
as we read through the passage, so let's take a second to reflect on our earlier impressions.
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- 00:36
Just humor us, as we play a little game called "Throw a Rock at the Wrong Answer."
- 00:41
Is the passage overly academic?
- 00:44
Nope. Lurid and sensational?
- 00:48
Nuh-uh. Does the author act like he's too cool to
- 00:52
even be writing about Nirvana? No way. That one gets two rocks.
- 00:58
The article might be considered up-beat, but it's definitely not unorganized and hard
- 01:02
to follow.
- 01:03
We'll go ahead and drop a boulder on that one.
- 01:06
Looks like the final choice is the only one left standing.
- 01:09
This one totally makes sense to us, because the author seems totally into his subject
- 01:13
throughout the passage... and the article is an easy read.
- 01:16
Congratulations, choice E, you've survived this round. No rocks for you.
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