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AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 7 310 Views
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 7. The primary purpose of this passage is what?
- Product Type / AP English Literature
- English / Form and Structure
- Reading / Form and Structure
- Reading Literature / Determine and analyze a theme or central idea of a text
- Reading Literature / Determine and analyze a theme or central idea of a text
- Reading Informational Text / Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text
- Audience and Author's Purpose / Identifying author's rhetorical purpose
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour:
- 00:08
Take a sec to pause and read the following passage.
- 00:11
Don't worry, there's like a 72% chance that it won't give you nightmares.
- 00:52
The primary purpose of this passage is to... what?
- 00:57
And here are the potential answers:
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- 01:03
Okay, so this question wants to know the "primary" purpose of this passage.
- 01:07
In other words, it may have many purposes, but we're looking specifically for the primary,
- 01:13
or most important one.
- 01:14
The Grand Poobah of purposes.
- 01:17
Let's throw our five answer choices at the wall and see which one... sticks.
- 01:21
A and B are both true—the passage does describe the couple's courtship, as well as the effect
- 01:26
the death of a wealthy relation can have on a poor family...
- 01:30
...but they're really just mentioned. They're not the be-all-end-all of the passage.
- 01:35
But C, on the other hand...
- 01:36
Sure looks like this is what we're looking for. The whole passage is about the Nickleby
- 01:40
family's complex relationship with money.
- 01:46
Complex, as in, they kinda suck at it.
- 01:54
They might as well be lighting fire to the stuff.
- 01:57
Just to make sure, let's check out the last two options.
- 01:59
D can't be right, because the narrator isn't mocking the poor. He may not necessarily want
- 02:05
to join them on the streets, but he certainly isn't making fun of them.
- 02:10
And E is out, because the passage never claims that money is the source of all life's problems.
- 02:16
In fact, the narrator acknowledges that people need money in order to survive.
- 02:22
Well, we agree. We think money is the bee's knees. And we also think it's pretty clear that our
- 02:27
answer here is option C.
- 02:31
That'll be $50, please.
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