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To Shmoop or not to Shmoop, that is... not this question...

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Pause.... review passage... lather, rinse, repeat...

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Paragraph 2 serves primarily to... what? And here are the potential answers...

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Okay, so we can't just skim and look for a key term or two... we have to read the entire

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2nd paragraph and make a judgment call.

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Yeah, it's a lot of words, but it won't kill us to look 'em over one more time.

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If it does, well... then we must have had a very low pain threshold.

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A and C are pretty sneaky choices. They throw stuff like "foreshadow" and "juxtapose"

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out there to make us think...

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"Ooh -- literary terms... it must be one of those." But let's not make a you-know-what

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out of you and me...

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While there is indeed foreshadowing in this passage, there's none in this paragraph...

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and the struldbrugs are described, but not contrasted with ordinary people.

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So we can kick those two to the curb. D can't be right... our speaker is totally

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high on immortality.

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If there are drawbacks, he certainly doesn't mention them. Although... having to spend

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an eternity writing "Luggnaggian" on every official form might be one of them.

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And E? Nah... no discussion of class conflicts.

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It has to be B... and that answer choice absolutely fits. The speaker does give us the rundown

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on struldbrugs.

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But if you ask us, this guy just likes to hear himself talk...

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