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AP English Language and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 1.8 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill 1, Problem 8. The quotation marks in the third paragraph chiefly serve to what?

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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill 1, Problem 8. The quotation marks in the third paragraph chiefly serve to what?

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00:00

[ musical flourish ]

00:03

And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by children who draw terrible naval battles.

00:08

Maybe someone should get these kids some help.

00:11

Check out the following passage.

00:13

It's a long one.

00:14

[ mumbles ]

00:22

[ mumbling continues ]

00:31

[ further mumbling ]

00:37

All right, you done? Good.

00:39

The quotation marks in the third paragraph - that's lines 16 through 23 -

00:43

chiefly serve to, uh, what?

00:46

And here are the potential answers.

00:47

[ mumbles ]

00:50

All right, pause waiver and let's just go.

00:52

Well, the essay as a whole makes it pretty clear that the speaker is passionate about

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artistic development, making him less likely to agree with

00:58

ideas that state otherwise.

01:01

Check out the speaker's abrupt shift in language in the third paragraph.

01:05

Terms for children's art productions change from "painting,"

01:08

"sculpting," and "composing" to the less noble

01:11

"making things," which appears in quotes.

01:13

The author also puts "making a living" in quotes when he talks about how

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it becomes more important than creating art as we get older.

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Those statements don't sound like the speaker when compared with the rest of the essay,

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and the air quotations confirm the contrast between the stuff in quotes

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and the speaker's personal view.

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It's like he's using the quotes to tell us, "This is the stuff people say, but I don't buy it."

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Right. Like that.

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Knowing this, we can get rid of most of these answer options easily.

01:39

Option A is first on our list.

01:41

The idea of making art versus making a living is a big deal in the passage,

01:45

and in the life of many starving artists out there.

01:47

But the quotes don't help the author get that point across.

01:50

So [ buzzer noise ]. Choice B is also a definite no.

01:54

Yeah, the quotations do contradict the previous paragraphs,

01:56

but they aren't meant to build a counterargument.

01:58

If they were, the speaker would be arguing against the idea that

02:01

kids eventually have to give up art, but he doesn't do that in the essay at all.

02:06

Though he doesn't like the idea, he's going at it with a

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"this is the way it goes" kind of attitude, right?

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Well, we're gonna have to give D the boot, as well.

02:13

The quotations may hint at a disconnect between the terms and the actions,

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but that's just not the point.

02:19

Choice C is sort of on the right track.

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The quotation marks do let us know that we shouldn't take the

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speaker's word choices at face value, but

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ultimately the best answer is E.

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The speaker uses the quotes to show that he is quoting others,

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and that these terms don't reflect what he really thinks.

02:36

We think this whole essay stems from the time the author's mom

02:40

caught him drawing a terrible naval battle and took his colored pencils away.

02:43

But that's just a theory.

02:45

[ screaming ]

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