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AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 6. The speaker's attitude toward growing up can best be described as what?
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
- 00:03
And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by growing up,
- 00:07
Umm... Well, we'll let you know when we think of the bright side.
- 00:10
Yeah.
- 00:11
All right, here we go. check out the passage.
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- 00:14
We're yammering on and on here. Distracting you.
- 00:17
Like, uh, some guy coughing at a test.
- 00:20
Learning things here?
- 00:21
[ mumbles ]
- 00:25
You done reading?
- 00:29
All right, let's just get to it.
- 00:30
Okay. The speaker's attitude toward growing up can
- 00:34
best be described as... what?
- 00:36
And here are the potential answers.
- 00:38
Hmm. You know what all these five-dollar words mean?
- 00:41
You can try it yourself.
- 00:42
Okay, here we go.
- 00:43
So this question requires us to take the temperature of the speaker's tone.
- 00:47
Seems pretty straightforward, so let's get to it.
- 00:49
Option A doesn't feel right to us.
- 00:52
The author doesn't say anything that comes across as
- 00:55
overtly or openly mocking.
- 00:57
It's not like he harshly criticizes the process of growing up.
- 01:00
or anything like that.
- 01:01
He isn't pretending to admire it, either, which knocks out D.
- 01:04
Wow, you're so cool. [ groan ]
- 01:07
The same fate awaits option E.
- 01:09
He's not being guardedly or cautiously respectful of the topic, either.
- 01:13
How would he even do that?
- 01:15
Huh?
- 01:16
All right, well, if he gave us a health class style rundown
- 01:19
on maturation, well then, choice B would be right.
- 01:22
He isn't clinically descriptive, though,
- 01:24
because he doesn't unemotionally list the implications of aging,
- 01:28
or its effect on a relationship with art. [ gasp ]
- 01:32
In fact, the speaker's attitude isn't particularly
- 01:34
clinical or analytical at all.
- 01:36
The possibility that art may play a larger role in school
- 01:39
or that art and financial success aren't mutually exclusive
- 01:43
isn't even considered. We're going with option C on this one.
- 01:46
According to our pessimistic speaker, the process of becoming an adult
- 01:50
is pretty simple - you grow up,
- 01:51
change your priorities and, unless you resign yourself to a life of poverty,
- 01:55
you forget about art. [ aww ]
- 01:57
There go our dreams of being a fabulously wealthy mime.
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