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AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 6. The speaker's attitude toward growing up can best be described as what?

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00:00

[ musical flourish ]

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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by growing up,

00:07

Umm... Well, we'll let you know when we think of the bright side.

00:10

Yeah.

00:11

All right, here we go. check out the passage.

00:14

We're yammering on and on here. Distracting you.

00:17

Like, uh, some guy coughing at a test.

00:20

Learning things here?

00:21

[ mumbles ]

00:25

You done reading?

00:29

All right, let's just get to it.

00:30

Okay. The speaker's attitude toward growing up can

00:34

best be described as... what?

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And here are the potential answers.

00:38

Hmm. You know what all these five-dollar words mean?

00:41

You can try it yourself.

00:42

Okay, here we go.

00:43

So this question requires us to take the temperature of the speaker's tone.

00:47

Seems pretty straightforward, so let's get to it.

00:49

Option A doesn't feel right to us.

00:52

The author doesn't say anything that comes across as

00:55

overtly or openly mocking.

00:57

It's not like he harshly criticizes the process of growing up.

01:00

or anything like that.

01:01

He isn't pretending to admire it, either, which knocks out D.

01:04

Wow, you're so cool. [ groan ]

01:07

The same fate awaits option E.

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He's not being guardedly or cautiously respectful of the topic, either.

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How would he even do that?

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Huh?

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All right, well, if he gave us a health class style rundown

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on maturation, well then, choice B would be right.

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He isn't clinically descriptive, though,

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because he doesn't unemotionally list the implications of aging,

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or its effect on a relationship with art. [ gasp ]

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In fact, the speaker's attitude isn't particularly

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clinical or analytical at all.

01:36

The possibility that art may play a larger role in school

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or that art and financial success aren't mutually exclusive

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isn't even considered. We're going with option C on this one.

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According to our pessimistic speaker, the process of becoming an adult

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is pretty simple - you grow up,

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change your priorities and, unless you resign yourself to a life of poverty,

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you forget about art. [ aww ]

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There go our dreams of being a fabulously wealthy mime.

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