ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
AP English Language and Composition Videos
AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?
Comprehension Videos 20 videos
AP® English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 1. The speaker would agree with all of the following statements except what?
AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 3. What can the "personality" that the speaker describes be characterized as?
AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 10. The metaphor used in lines 62 and 63 is best interpreted to mean which...
Document Based Question Videos 1 videos
AP® English Language and Composition: DBQ Drill 1, Problem 1. Read the following sources (including the introduction), then write an essay in...
Grammar, Syntax, and Conventions of Written English Videos 9 videos
This video clears up the confusion between then and than once and for all. It explains when to use each one (one for time, one for comparison) and...
Which of the following words is most grammatically parallel to "faculty" (line 23)?
The author makes use of parallelism in lines 33–37 ("The blues…Civil Rights Movement") primarily in order to
Passage Drill Videos 153 videos
AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill 1, Problem 8. The quotation marks in the third paragraph chiefly serve to what?
AP English Language and Composition 2.7 Passage Drill. The speaker's choice of syntax in the phrase, "he... guilt" (line 17) places most empha...
AP English Language and Composition 4.4 Passage Drill. In this passage, "fatuous" is best defined as what?
Persona, Tone, and Point of View Videos 14 videos
AP® English Language and Composition: Persona, Tone, and Point of View Drill 1, Problem 1. What is the overall tone of the passage?
AP English Language and Composition: Persona, Tone, and Point of View Drill 1, Problem 2. In context, which of the following is the best inter...
AP English Language and Composition: Persona, Tone, and Point of View Drill 1, Problem 6. With which of the following statements is the speaker mos...
Purpose, Rhetoric, Style, and Organization Videos 41 videos
AP® English Language and Composition: Purpose, Rhetoric, Style, and Organization Drill 1, Problem 1. The speaker cites all of the following as ben...
AP English Language and Composition 3.10 Passage Drill. Which of the following devices does the passage not include?
In lines 33–34, the author writes that "ambition would induce them to aspire to office, and commands and honors, to form cabals against their com...
Reference Skills Videos 7 videos
AP® English Language and Composition: Reference Skills Drill 1, Problem 1. The word "piecemeal" is best interpreted to mean what?
The quotations in lines 30–31 ("as a result…history") and lines 51–53 ("White…got there") most share which of the following relationships?
Which of the following is an accurate reading of footnote 2?