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AP English Language and Composition 6.5 Passage Drill. The tone of paragraph 3 could best be described as what?
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AP English Language: What Is The Author's Attitude? 40 Views
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What most accurately describes the author's attitude toward the "Mechanical Arts" in paragraph 5?
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Okay Ap england people moving in line what most accurately
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describes the author's attitude toward the mechanical arts in paragraph
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five The author's clearly awestruck by the steam engine and
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labor that goes into designing and building it He's also
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respectful acknowledging the dignity of the practical arts like people
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used to look down on train makers and up on
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oil painters or something like that even though he considers
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himself more of a fine art see kind of guy
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Bewildered azan and grudging as in b don't really describe
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his point of view towards mechanical art He may be
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a bit of a romantic in the sense of the
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you know romantic period in the art but we couldn't
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really say he's alienated by technology He's enthusiastic but well
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we don't get the impression he's so crazy about trains
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and he's going to build a model railroad set up
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in his basement like sheldon Yeah that's more our style 00:01:01.014 --> [endTime] So the answer is c respectful wonderment
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