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Texas EOC English 2: 4.4 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 174 Views
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- Reading Informational Text / Analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance his or her point of view
- Reading Informational Text / Analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance his or her point of view
- Reading Informational Text / Determine author’s purpose through effective rhetoric
- Literary / Nonfiction
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
- 00:05
jour brought to you by tones like this one that's
- 00:08
too high for human ears to hear Jeez your dogs
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Sorry Just check out the following passage very high our
- 00:18
tone of language So we're skimming for tone We're thinking
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- 00:21
about this guy very well clearly own tone tone All
- 00:26
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
- 00:32
potential answers they're rapper named tone lock you know All
- 00:37
right well when we're digging into tone we have to
- 00:39
think about the narrator's overall attitude toward the things he's
- 00:42
talking about We'll see definitely doesn't get where douglas is
- 00:45
coming from If douglas were being sardonic well that would
- 00:49
mean that his tone was funny in a dark way
- 00:52
like family guy But even more cynical douglas definitely isn't
- 00:56
using the chains and fetters of his brother slaves as
- 01:00
any kind of punchline though if he did somebody probably
- 01:03
would have told him agency next let's eliminate option d
- 01:09
douglas definitely has an opinion about whether or not people
- 01:11
should publicly reveal the means of escape from slavery Answer
- 01:15
Is no by the way no they should not of
- 01:18
course choice a isn't right either douglas maybe making an
- 01:21
argument but he isn't being overly aggressive about it Not
- 01:25
once does he threatened a punch Anyone so we know
- 01:27
isn't right will be is the correct answer The author
- 01:31
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
- 01:38
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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