ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos


Diction and Syntax Videos 20 videos

AP English Literature: A Man at Arms
4 Views

In lines 7-10 ("His helmet now...his alms"), the narrator draws attention to

AP English Literature: Barking Mice
3 Views

The word "bark" (line 16) is used

AP English Literature: Figuring Out the Tense
6 Views

The entire poem is framed in which of the following tenses?

See All

AP English Literature: Usage of Adverbs 20 Views


Share It!


Description:

The subject of the adverb "Whereon" (line 6) is the


Transcript

00:00

Sorry All right AP English people were looking at this

00:06

poem here Love Strong is death is dead blah blah

00:09

You can skim it if you want your brave staring

00:12

into the gaping maw of death here Okay the question

00:15

Let's just get to it The subject of the adverb

00:18

But we're on in a line Six right there as

00:22

we said is the what What is it What does

00:25

it symbolize or relate to Well when it comes to

00:29

adverbs look not only at the verb which is what

00:33

the ad to the verb is describing right That's why

00:36

they call it an ad for but also the subject

00:39

that directly precedes it Like whatever is doing the verb

00:43

active thing Line five describes a stone at his feet

00:47

Where on they sit Well if there's room for at

00:50

least two it must be pretty big stone there Right

00:52

Also an informal shmoop poll has revealed that we're on

00:56

is the adverb of the year So the answer is

00:58

east Don't Yeah number five right there All right Well

01:01

it'd be pretty weird if the speaker we're sitting on

01:03

the dead guy's feet or on love itself that be

01:07

hard to Dio The speaker and her crew are sitting

01:09

on a stone at her love's feet It's where they'll

01:11

be able to spend some quiet hours thinking about the

01:14

one they lost Right The green turf A isn't doing

01:17

the sitting and the bed is structurally too far away

01:20

to fit here So get rid of those as well 00:01:22.19 --> [endTime] The entries Uh girls

Related Videos

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 4
842 Views

AP English Literature and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill 4. As which of the following is the object being personified?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 3
515 Views

AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 3. How is Burne's view of pacifism best characterized in lines 57 through 67?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 5
245 Views

AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 5. Death is primarily characterized as what?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 5
239 Views

AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 5. Which line indicates the turn or shift in this poem?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 4
259 Views

AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 4. Lines 32-34 are best understood to mean what?