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AP English Language and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 10.10 Passage Drill. How can the author's tone best be described?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by lectures why teach [Man giving lecture]

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when you can lecture yeah dr. parents about that first check out the passage

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yet again for the 97th time

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and we're done okay how's that for easy skimming

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the author's tone overall can best be described as what and here are the

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potential answers that was our tone five tones been

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pretty impressive huh tone it's what separates we should talk [Girl asks man to talk]

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from we should talk and you probably should avoid that talk now the author's

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tone in this passage is pretty consistent he does enjoy some

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high-flying rhetoric but it never goes far enough to be described as emotional [Girl crying]

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we've Brittany alone this is not and he's not particularly skeptical or

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hopeful he's just logically laying out an argument think less hope and change [Obama giving speech on change]

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Obama and more tweety law professor Obama yeah but he's not talking down to

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us or cracking jokes he's basically just lecturing to us in a very calm

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reasonable professorial way we can practically smell the mothballs so a is [Moth lands on balls]

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the correct answer now get out of here before the smell of

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formaldehyde and muck becomes too much to bear

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Oh too late [Boy in hospital bed and doctor approaches bed]

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