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AP English Language and Composition 2.4 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 2.4 Passage Drill. In the context of the passage, which of the following words from the second paragraph d...

AP English Language and Composition 8.1 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 8.1 Passage Drill. What best describes the authorial tone in this passage?

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AP English Language and Composition 6.5 Passage Drill. The tone of paragraph 3 could best be described as what?

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AP English Language: Determining an Author's Attitude 9 Views


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The author's attitude toward the subjects in the passage is best described as


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Okay Ap england people another question for you last one

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In this section the author's attitude toward the subjects in

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the passage is best described as what The best way

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to figure out attitude and tone is attending a punctuation

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in wording if there are a lot of exclamation points

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while we can bet the author is emotionally involved If

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there are a slew of positive or negative adjectives well

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we know what the author's opinion is on something right

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The author's point of view here is mostly just factual

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journalistic even for the fact that there are some rather

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dryly humorous statements like addicts are good customers you also

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makes it rather wry So for this the author is

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it times admiring a and respectful see but not entirely

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After all blame is squarely placed on ross for america's

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crack addiction There the author tries to be somewhat detached

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so there isn't much that's negative or positive and either

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sarcastic nor deferential So get rid of danny So yeah

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the answer is b Ryan factual

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