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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill 2, Problem 8. Which of the following best describes the primary relationship between footnotes two, four, and five and the rest of the passage?
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[ musical flourish ]
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the Earl of Southampton.
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He's probably here to bring us a few... earls of wisdom.
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[ groan ] That's a dumb pun.
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All right, check out the following passage.
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Reading... Reading... [ mumbles ]
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[ mumbles ]
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[ mumbling continues ]
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Which of the following best describes
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the primary relationship between footnotes two, four, and five
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and the rest of the passage?
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All right, here are the potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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Okay, well, so this question wants us to look at footnotes two, four, and five,
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which are the three meaty ones, and decide what the, you know,
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relationship is between them and the passage.
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What does that mean, relationship?
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Is our passage dating three different footnotes?
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Are they all okay with it? Well, as it turns out, there's nothing romantic going on here.
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What we really wanna know is why are these footnotes
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here and what are they really accomplishing?
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Are they A - suggesting a discrepancy between the king's
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public discourse and his private one?
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Uh, no, not really a discrepancy being pointed out here.
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Besides, that would be kind of a big thing not to have in the passage itself, no?
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All right, well, are they B -
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providing a historical context for particular events in the passage?
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Eh. They're providing evidence to claims made in the passage itself,
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rather than historical explanations.
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Which is good, because we're not in the mood for a history lesson
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on top of an English language one. All right.
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Are the footnotes C -
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highlighting the rapid succession of events described in the passage?
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No. They're really just clarifying specific points,
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not really pushing a plot forward or making a big deal about how quickly everything went down.
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Are they D - distinguishing the speaker's personal opinion
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from his or her stance in the passage? No. Not at all.
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The speaker doesn't suddenly do a 180 in the footnotes.
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His stance is pretty consistent throughout.
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Which means it's gotta be E - the footnotes bolster statements
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in the passage with qualitative information.
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Yes, indeedy. In fact, that's often the whole point of a footnote.
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Each of these footnotes totally backs up or supports the speaker's remarks from the passage.
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So, yeah. Answer E, as in Earl of Southampton.
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