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AP English Language and Composition 3.10 Passage Drill. Which of the following devices does the passage not include?
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
- 00:04
And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the laws of nature,
- 00:08
the one set of laws that's impossible to break.
- 00:12
At least on Earth. [woman holding a boy by his collar]
- 00:13
All right, so we're skimming, we're skimming.
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- 00:16
And how many times have we skimmed this?
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[ mumbles ]
- 00:27
Okay, let's just get to it.
- 00:29
Which of the following devices does the passage
- 00:31
not include? [sound of a baby laughing]
- 00:33
We're not seeing an iPhone 6 here.
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[ mumbles ]
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Okay, let's get to it.
- 00:40
All right, well, the only thing to do here is go down the list
- 00:42
and root through the passage to see what we find. [Man in the farm, holding a plant root]
- 00:45
Choice B says that the passage doesn't exaggerate.
- 00:49
Huh. Well, the author might agree for the most part because he's just that hardcore about science. [Woman describing the size of a spider to a man]
- 00:54
The bit about water crystallizing into stars is
- 00:56
an exaggeration, though. Like our closest star, the sun,
- 00:59
the other stars out there are fiery balls of exploding atoms.
- 01:04
Like that.
- 01:05
If the author isn't intentionally exaggerating here, well, then Like that.
- 01:05
If the author isn't intentionally exaggerating here, well, then
- 01:08
he doesn't know his science as well as he should.
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Option C claims that there aren't any analogies in the passage, [Man disgusted after seeing the spider]
- 01:13
but we have to disagree.
- 01:15
An analogy is a comparison of two things that are somehow similar.
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So how about when Professor Huxley equates the necessity of learning about science
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to the necessity of learning about chess?
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All in a world where our lives depend on winning a game of it. [A professor writing something on the blackboard]
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Yep, the Hux gives us a big, whopping analogy, so that makes
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C a no-go.
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And then we have answer D, which clearly misses the fact
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that the passage is chock-full of metaphors.
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Our favorite is when "our perturbed minds" are
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compared to "dark waters." [image of a brain, dark water and a tornado]
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But, maybe that's because we're a little bit twisted.
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Yeah, welcome to Shmoop.
- 01:50
All right, choice E tries to convince us that the passage has
- 01:52
no reiteration.
- 01:54
Seriously, E?
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This passage is continually repeating itself.
- 01:58
If we really wanted to boil it down, it'd read like this: [image of water boiling]
- 02:00
"Science is awesome. Really awesome.
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Science is so, so, really awesome."
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All right, well, the best answer is A.
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A counterargument is an argument or set of ideas that
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opposes another argument or set of ideas.
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Using a counterargument in an essay can be a good thing.
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Pointing out where the other side may be right gives us a great
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chance to show exactly why we're more right [woman arguing with her husband while lying on a sunbed]
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than the other side.
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However, it seems like nobody ever told the author of this passage [Crackers bursting in the sky]
- 02:25
about the joys of counterarguments.
- 02:27
He never makes the case for why science might lead to bad things. [someone performing an experiment and it explodes]
- 02:31
Guess he never read Frankenstein.
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