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AP English Language and Composition 7.1 Passage Drill. What best describes the author's tone or "voice" in this passage?

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Thank you We sneak in I mean here's your shmoop

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du jour brought to you by high fashion defying common

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sense Well since about the late sixteen hundreds there are

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we done skimming It smelled like common crayfish your while

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They bathed once a year with you Okay what best

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describes the author's tone or voice in this passage And

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here are potential answers We don't see shmoop like in

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there anywhere okay so we're looking for the other's voice

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Ursula the sea witch anyone finding the voice in this

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instance means figuring out what the author's attitude is toward

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the subject on this case that topic is zoology Geology

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is the study of animals which is a science so

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let's channel our inner scientist or outer scientists or whatever

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you've got available The author maintains a pretty level tone

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never really getting too passionate none of that lovey dovey

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stuff for this astute academic so we can break it

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off with answer b what about encouraging and supportive Well

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starting online sixty the author states my purpose in the

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present work is to exemplify the general truths respecting the

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development of zoological science He uses the common crayfish to

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illustrate his point and in a footnote states if crawfish

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or not to be had a lobster will be found

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to answer the former gerard dinner vel of francois might

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not take too kindly to the blind callous comparison of

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a lobster and crawfish apparently nerve al loved those little

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critters so much Well it's said he actually walked his

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pet lobster through the streets of paris even named the

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sucker before he ate it The author makes it clear

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that the only important thing here our fax sorry feelings

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this matter of fact tone also effectively eliminates e since

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profound and reflective would be focusing more on descriptions of

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beauty and awe and this guy is definitely an owner

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vow that leaves us a and c Well the author

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doesn't sound rigid That would be more what we get

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from a strict instructor which means answer a is correct

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The author presents himself as being knowledgeable of the subject

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and present it in a way that makes sense The

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author shows Science isn't so mysterious or abstract but is

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based on logic and facts Not that there's Any logic

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in having a pet lobster but boy they're good with 00:02:28.418 --> [endTime] butter

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