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AP U.S. History 4.1 Period 3: 1754-1800
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AP U.S. History 4.1 Period 3: 1754-1800. The argument in the excerpt is most clearly an example of which of the following late 18th-century trends?

AP English Language and Composition 4.9 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 4.9 Passage Drill. The syntax of the third paragraph suggests that the speaker...what?

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Texas EOC English 2: 4.4 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 174 Views


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by tones like this one that's

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too high for human ears to hear Jeez your dogs

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Sorry Just check out the following passage very high our

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tone of language So we're skimming for tone We're thinking

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about this guy very well clearly own tone tone All

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right well here we go The author's tone in this

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passage can be best described as what And here the

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potential answers they're rapper named tone lock you know All

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right well when we're digging into tone we have to

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think about the narrator's overall attitude toward the things he's

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talking about We'll see definitely doesn't get where douglas is

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coming from If douglas were being sardonic well that would

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mean that his tone was funny in a dark way

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like family guy But even more cynical douglas definitely isn't

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using the chains and fetters of his brother slaves as

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any kind of punchline though if he did somebody probably

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would have told him agency next let's eliminate option d

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douglas definitely has an opinion about whether or not people

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should publicly reveal the means of escape from slavery Answer

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Is no by the way no they should not of

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course choice a isn't right either douglas maybe making an

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argument but he isn't being overly aggressive about it Not

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once does he threatened a punch Anyone so we know

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isn't right will be is the correct answer The author

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starts the passage by arguing that publicizing the methods of

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escape from slavery doesn't help slaves It's also not a

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good idea to publicize every inane thought we have But

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that isn't stopping millions of twitter users as we speak

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like that and that and that got those tweets Wow

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