ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
AP English Language Videos 129 videos
AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?
Wishing upon a star may help you pass your AP English Language and Composition test, but answering this question would be a safer bet.
Take a look at this shmoopy question and see if you can figure out which device the speaker employs the most.
AP English Language: Identifying The Overall Theme 16 Views
Share It!
Description:
Which of the following lines best summarizes the passage's overall theme?
Transcript
- 00:05
Okay Next up Which of the following lines best summarizes
- 00:08
the passages overall fema All right We're presuming we've skimmed
- 00:15
it enough now teo get a sense for this What
- 00:18
do you think the gilded age was An era of
- 00:20
enormous growth and prosperity for some and exploitation and misery
Full Transcript
- 00:24
for others Well this is the ambivalence that runs throughout
- 00:27
the piece regardless of the winners and the losers though
- 00:29
what everyone can agree upon is that america was in
- 00:32
the process of extreme change simply defining this time period
- 00:36
as the gilded age a or mentioning how that label
- 00:38
has struck will be get rid of that doesn't do
- 00:41
justice to the nuance and depth of the peace Likewise
- 00:44
focusing on lee on the widespread corruption get rid of
- 00:47
d or decline in agriculture Get rid E ignores all
- 00:50
these other events that were happening at the time anyway
- 00:52
The right anterior Yeah it's see some americans celebrated the
- 00:55
new wealth Others lamented it all could agree that profound
- 00:59
changes were taken place in the country That line that's 00:01:02.008 --> [endTime] the heart of the piece here that's it
Related Videos
AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?
Wishing upon a star may help you pass your AP English Language and Composition test, but answering this question would be a safer bet.
AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 7. The primary purpose of this passage is what?
Take a look at this shmoopy question and see if you can figure out which device the speaker employs the most.
Feel like shifting gears and answering a question about shifting tones? We've got you covered. Take a look at this question and see if you can foll...