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AP Lang & Comp: Discerning tone

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AP Lang Comp Discerning tone
AP Lang & Comp: Discerning tone
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to help students learn to identify the tone of literary passages in preparation for the AP Lang & Comp exam
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Question: Which of the following terms for tone apply to this quote? More than one may apply. "For the great body of the people in any modern community, the proximate ground of expenditure in excess of what is required for physical comfort is not a conscious effort to excel in the expensiveness of their visible consumption, so much as it is a desire to live up to the conventional standard of decency in the amount and grade of goods consumed." (Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class) bantering colloquial confident detached didactic factual informal objective restrained scholarly
Answer: confident, factual, objective, scholarly

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