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AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 7. The primary purpose of this passage is what?
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 1. Which of the following is offered as a possible explanation for the struldbrugs' absence from court?
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour...
- 00:07
You may not have missed this passage, but it missed you. Hit pause and spend a minute or two with it.
- 00:20
What can be inferred from the frequent use of the dash in this passage?
- 00:25
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:31
Looking back over the passage, it's certainly true... there are more dashes here than at the Olympic games.
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- 00:38
So to answer this one, we really just have to fall back on our understanding of punctuation
- 00:42
and literary devices.
- 00:44
What's the author's reason for packing this passage chock full of dashes?
- 00:51
Does he think they're visually appealing? Is his "period" key broken? Did the "Dash
- 00:55
Mafia" get to him? Nah. Dashes don't imply censoring, abridgment,
- 01:00
or unknown information.
- 01:02
They are used for one thing and one thing only -- to indicate an abrupt halt or transition in speech.
- 01:16
Looking over our five answer choices, B is the only one that fits the bill.
- 01:20
The moral of this question? Don't cut people off mid-sentence...
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...or the Dash Mafia will come for you...
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