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Answer this AP English Language and Composition drill correctly and you'll never die!*
Transcript
- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
- 00:03
And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by immortality.
- 00:07
Some people wanna live forever by being famous.
- 00:09
We'd rather live forever by not dying.
- 00:14
We're skimming... Skimming...
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- 00:15
[ mumbles ]
- 00:26
And we're done.
- 00:27
All right, the speaker believes immortality... what?
- 00:30
And here are the potential answers.
- 00:32
[ mumbles ]
- 00:40
Awesome. This question is gonna tell us how to live forever.
- 00:43
All right, eat your heart out, fountain of youth.
- 00:45
Choice B claims immortality is easy to find,
- 00:48
but if that's true, why aren't we all living forever?
- 00:51
The speaker doesn't say anything that shows he thinks gaining immorality is
- 00:54
easy, so we can eliminate B.
- 00:56
Really, if he knew an easy trick to gaining immortality,
- 00:59
well, he oughta just sit on the idea until he finds a way to put it on the market.
- 01:02
C can go, too. The speaker doesn't tell us that immortality is
- 01:05
linked to how people feel about themselves. Kind of a relief there.
- 01:09
Think of the most conceited person at your school and imagine them living forever.
- 01:15
Answer A advises that we have to be selflessly devoted
- 01:18
to others in order to be immortal.
- 01:21
Well, the speaker might agree in the case of great teachers,
- 01:24
whom he says are instant immortals.
- 01:26
Tell this to your favorite teacher. It's a much better gift than an apple.
- 01:31
The speaker also says that there are other paths to immortality.
- 01:34
So we can't sign off on choice A.
- 01:36
Answer E doesn't make the cut, either.
- 01:38
Does the speaker say that chance events and kindness
- 01:41
factored into Shakespeare and Jane Austen's immortality? No.
- 01:45
It's because they were awesome artists who people still think
- 01:48
are, well, at least reasonably cool.
- 01:50
Well, we've gotta go with choice D on this one.
- 01:52
The speaker says that living on in the memory of others
- 01:56
doesn't always mean we were famous when we were alive.
- 02:00
He points out that an old lady in a Rembrandt painting lived her whole life
- 02:03
without doing anything remarkable, but remains famous to this day
- 02:06
because a well-known artist
- 02:08
chose her as a subject. And, boom, there we go.
- 02:10
That's choice D all over.
- 02:12
Observation: the speaker points out a lot of ways
- 02:15
to be immortal, but he overlooks befriending a local vampire.
- 02:18
[ gasp ] [ evil laugh ]
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