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AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 1 317 Views
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 1. All of the following are true of struldbrugs except that what?
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- 00:05
You can't handle the shmoop...
- 00:07
We know you just read this, but... hit pause and read it again. It won't kill you.
- 00:25
All of the following are true of struldbrugs EXCEPT that... what?
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And here are the potential answers...
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This question is testing two things... One -- our powers of observation...
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...and two -- our ability to recognize the word "EXCEPT," and realize it means we're
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looking for the answer choice that doesn't hold true.
- 00:51
The evil test-makers are just hoping you'll spot something in the passage that matches
- 00:55
something in one of the bogus answers, fill in the bubble excitedly and move on.
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That "except" word is a biggie. Okay, so... in that case, all we have to do
- 01:03
is look through the passage for each answer choice, and decide which is the odd one out
- 01:07
by process of elimination.
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As it turns out, we could certainly cross off answers A, B, C and E...
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...but if we noticed line 18, which that says that, "at five and forty it grew coal black"...
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...we don't even have to bother hunting down the decoys.
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Answer D suggests the mark turns blue at this age, and we know that's a bald-faced lie.
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What -- do they think we've never hung out with a 45-year-old struldbrug before?
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