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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 4. Lines 32-34 are best understood to mean what?
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.8 Passage Drill 5. Line 9 is best understood as all of the following except what?
- Product Type / AP English Literature
- Reading / Audience and Purpose
- English / Audience and Purpose
- Reading Literature / Analyze how author’s choices in structure create mystery, suspense, or surprise
- Reading Literature / Analyze how author’s choices in structure create mystery, suspense, or surprise
- Imagery and Figurative Language / Identifying uses of imagery
- Literary Comprehension / Identifying details about plot, setting, or characterization
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Here’s your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Fate. There’s no escaping it.
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Unless you have MacGyver and Chuck Norris on speed dial.
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Line 9 is BEST understood as all of the following EXCEPT… what?
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And here are the potential answers…
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Had enough of Line 9? We didn’t think so…
Full Transcript
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This question wants us to interpret the line and determine which of the answer choices
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is INcorrect.
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Note the “EXCEPT” in the question. They even “all caps”ed it for us.
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Okay, first let’s take one last look at Line 9:
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Thou'art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men
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Yikes. Doesn’t seem like we could squeeze four pieces of factual information out of
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such a short line…
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…but the question tells us that there’s only one rotten egg in the bunch…
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Let’s… start sniffin’…
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We’ll start with A – Death is often subject to the whims of man.
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Well… kings are men, last we checked. And “desperate men” are tacked onto the end there.
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So yeah – Death is a slave to kings and desperate men, who often make the decision
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to take lives.
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It’s good to be the king. B – Death is but a consequence of luck or war.
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It’s hinted at a little more indirectly… but sure. The “kings and men” we mentioned
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aren’t always just walking up to randoms and knifing them in alleyways.
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War is where kings and men do a lot of their dirty work…
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…and “fate” takes care of the “luck” part.
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C – Death has no mastery of someone who willingly takes his life.
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Nothing directly stated about suicide in this line either… but it goes without saying
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that if a “desperate man” kills himself, Death can’t really do anything about it.
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So C is out. D – Death is avoided by fate.
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Ah – here’s our black sheep. Fate determines death, it doesn’t avoid it.
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Just to be sure… E – Death is unpredictable.
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Yup. The author is implying that death can occur randomly… so there’s certainly some
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unpredictability in the mix. Answer: D
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As in, “Dead giveaway.”
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