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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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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by lectures why teach [Man giving lecture]
- 00:08
when you can lecture yeah dr. parents about that first check out the passage
- 00:12
yet again for the 97th time
- 00:28
and we're done okay how's that for easy skimming
- 00:31
the author's tone overall can best be described as what and here are the
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- 00:35
potential answers that was our tone five tones been
- 00:42
pretty impressive huh tone it's what separates we should talk [Girl asks man to talk]
- 00:47
from we should talk and you probably should avoid that talk now the author's
- 00:54
tone in this passage is pretty consistent he does enjoy some
- 00:56
high-flying rhetoric but it never goes far enough to be described as emotional [Girl crying]
- 01:00
we've Brittany alone this is not and he's not particularly skeptical or
- 01:05
hopeful he's just logically laying out an argument think less hope and change [Obama giving speech on change]
- 01:09
Obama and more tweety law professor Obama yeah but he's not talking down to
- 01:15
us or cracking jokes he's basically just lecturing to us in a very calm
- 01:19
reasonable professorial way we can practically smell the mothballs so a is [Moth lands on balls]
- 01:23
the correct answer now get out of here before the smell of
- 01:26
formaldehyde and muck becomes too much to bear
- 01:28
Oh too late [Boy in hospital bed and doctor approaches bed]
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