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AP English Literature and Composition 1.8 Passage Drill 7 216 Views
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.8 Passage Drill 7. The primary purpose of lines 58 through 66 is to what?
- Product Type / AP English Literature
- Reading / Audience and Purpose
- English / Audience and Purpose
- Literary Fiction / Narration and Tone
- Reading Literature / Cite textual evidence to support analysis
- Reading Literature / Cite textual evidence to support analysis
- Reading Literature / Cite textual evidence to support analysis
- Audience and Author's Purpose / Identifying author's rhetorical purpose
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- 00:04
It's time for your daily dose of shmoop...
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This passage is calling your name. It wants you to press pause and give it a read.
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Don't ask how it knew your name. We swear we didn't say a word.
- 00:43
The primary purpose of lines 57 through 65 is to... what?
- 00:48
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:50
Well, if we want to know the purpose of something... guess we should be familiar with it first.
- 00:55
Whoa. Not that familiar.
- 00:58
Here are lines 57 through 65:
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"With a portion of this property Mr Godfrey Nickleby purchased a small farm, near Dawlish
- 01:05
in Devonshire, whither he retired with his wife and two children, to live upon the best
- 01:10
interest he could get for the rest of his money, and the little produce he could raise
- 01:13
from his land. The two prospered so well together that, when he died, some fifteen years after
- 01:19
this period, and some five after his wife, he was enabled to leave, to his eldest son,
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Ralph, three thousand pounds in cash, and to his youngest son, Nicholas, one thousand
- 01:29
and the farm, which was as small a landed estate as one would desire to see."
- 01:34
Okay, now let's take our answer choices one by one and see which one lands...
- 01:39
Is this paragraph describing what Godfrey Nickleby buys with his inheritance?
- 01:45
Well... yeah... but is that the purpose of it?
- 01:50
Hm... not likely. We're pretty much done with the purchasing part of it by the end of the
- 01:55
first sentence... there's more meat here than that...
- 01:58
Is it tracing the Nickleby family's shift from poverty to prosperity?
- 02:03
Bingo. Here we have an option that relates to the entire paragraph, not just a piece of it.
- 02:09
We'll take a quick look at the remaining answers just to make sure there isn't a better option...
- 02:12
although we're not going to bet Nicholas' farm on it.
- 02:18
There's no emotional reaction discussed, so C is out...
- 02:21
...there's no judgment being made about what constitutes a "moral life," so D ain't coin' it for us.
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...and there's no real difference mentioned between the two brothers... other than their different tax brackets.
- 02:32
So yeah... B's our answer.
- 02:33
As in, "Bet the farm."
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