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AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 1. In the context of the passage, what does the word "compass" in line 15 mean?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 1. To what idea does the phrase "my opinion" in line 49 refer?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 1. The speaker's diction in this passage serves to characterize him as which of the f...
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 3. What can be inferred from the frequent use of the dash in this passage?
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Here's your shmoop du jour...
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You may not have missed this passage, but it missed you. Hit pause and spend a minute or two with it.
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What can be inferred from the frequent use of the dash in this passage?
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And here are the potential answers...
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Looking back over the passage, it's certainly true... there are more dashes here than at the Olympic games.
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So to answer this one, we really just have to fall back on our understanding of punctuation
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and literary devices.
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What's the author's reason for packing this passage chock full of dashes?
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Does he think they're visually appealing? Is his "period" key broken? Did the "Dash
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Mafia" get to him? Nah. Dashes don't imply censoring, abridgment,
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or unknown information.
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They are used for one thing and one thing only -- to indicate an abrupt halt or transition in speech.
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Looking over our five answer choices, B is the only one that fits the bill.
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The moral of this question? Don't cut people off mid-sentence...
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...or the Dash Mafia will come for you...
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