ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos


AP Videos 1192 videos

AP Computer Science 1.3 Review of the Basics
187 Views

E.T., phone home....or solve this Shmoopy AP Computer Science question.

AP Computer Science 1.4 Review of the Basics
183 Views

AP Computer Science: Review of the Basics Drill 1, Problem 4. What is 11001 (base 2) in base 10?

Computer Science: Doubles and Ints
17 Views

Doubles and ints. At first glance, it may look like this video will be about baseball and football statistics. But they're actually computer scienc...

See All

AP English Literature: Development in Poetry 3 Views


Share It!


Description:

Which of the following best describes the development of the poem?


Transcript

00:00

No Okay AP angle it people Next question for you

00:08

big fat home which is going to kind of cruise

00:11

through it here and looking and just kind of winking

00:13

at it first Which of the following best describes the

00:17

development of the poem The development is a speculum objective

00:23

mysterious imaginative frightening too All these things I don't think

00:27

about it There are a few choices here to look

00:28

good but the poems initial intrigue that grows whimsical is

00:31

definitely the best choice Whimsical the little pun at the

00:35

very end that includes this sunrise Leaving the door ajar

00:38

tells us the speaker's playing with the poems setting She's

00:41

also playing with our emotions as she turns the poems

00:44

mystery into a kind of harmless wordplay So the answer

00:47

is C goes from mysterious Teo Well amusing Yeah alright

00:52

Loser bowl Well there's nothing deductive in the poems conclusion

00:55

The entire thing was framed as a hypothetical the kind

00:58

of situation So get rid of a poem Can't sound

01:00

too subjective either because little Speaker has an a knish

01:03

in point of view right They know everything Get rid

01:05

of B and likewise There's nothing particularly realistic about the

01:09

poem because well we see a whole lot of objects

01:11

thinking and talking a kind of you know Dickinson does

01:15

Disney Effect So get rid of D and then frightening

01:18

to Placid is inaccurate because well we're never holding tight

01:22

to our blankets are calmly dismissing the old folks So

01:25

get rid of Adm first See hear mysterious amusing good 00:01:28.73 --> [endTime] for me thin for life

Related Videos

AP English Literature: Inferring About the Luggnaggians
33 Views

According to the information presented in the first and second paragraph (lines 1-26), it can be reasonably inferred that the kingdom of the Luggna...

AP English Literature: Inexpressible Adjectives
12 Views

In line 27, the adjective "inexpressible" is used

AP English Literature: Restating the Main Idea
3 Views

The main idea of the second paragraph (lines 24-33) can best be restated that

AP English Literature: Unpacking Emotions
6 Views

The list in lines 28-30, ("you make take sarza for the liver…castoreum for the brain") chiefly serves to

AP English Literature: Tiething the Knot
4 Views

The phrase "it is that which tieth the knot" (line 45) is best understood as