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AP® English Language and Composition: Persona, Tone, and Point of View Drill 1, Problem 1. What is the overall tone of the passage?
AP English Language and Composition: Persona, Tone, and Point of View Drill 1, Problem 2. In context, which of the following is the best inter...
AP English Language and Composition: Persona, Tone, and Point of View Drill 1, Problem 6. With which of the following statements is the speaker mos...
AP English Language: Determining an Author's Attitude 9 Views
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The author's attitude toward the subjects in the passage is best described as
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Okay Ap england people another question for you last one
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In this section the author's attitude toward the subjects in
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the passage is best described as what The best way
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to figure out attitude and tone is attending a punctuation
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in wording if there are a lot of exclamation points
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while we can bet the author is emotionally involved If
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there are a slew of positive or negative adjectives well
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we know what the author's opinion is on something right
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The author's point of view here is mostly just factual
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journalistic even for the fact that there are some rather
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dryly humorous statements like addicts are good customers you also
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makes it rather wry So for this the author is
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it times admiring a and respectful see but not entirely
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After all blame is squarely placed on ross for america's
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crack addiction There the author tries to be somewhat detached
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so there isn't much that's negative or positive and either
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sarcastic nor deferential So get rid of danny So yeah
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the answer is b Ryan factual
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