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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?
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AP English Language and Composition 9.2 Passage Drill. Which of the following rhetorical strategies does the author employ?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by poetry be laboring the point
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for untold centuries Okay check the following passage and maybe
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grab a snack or something Cause it's a doozy Eighteen
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twenty one Yeah they got paid by the word back
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in and this guy made a whole lot of money
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because look at all these words and we're just going
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to scroll scramble scramble scramble And yeah we're done Okay
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dante and paradise And where Yeah okay here's the question
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which of the following rhetorical strategy Says the author employed
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and here are potential answers right We're looking for rhetorical
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strategy is what on earth is that All right Well
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let's knock down each choice like bowling pins on a
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fine spring day because the author make his argument by
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appealing to common sentiments in values Well as we know
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from the first question the writer's trying to convince the
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reader that poetry is a pretty big deal and that
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it's vital to society it's probably safe to assume that
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this was not a commonly held belief that time you
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wrote the piece so we can eliminate this answer If
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the author's ideas on poetry were common values he wouldn't
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have felt the need to write an essay especially one
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this huge his arguments don't appeal to common sentiments and
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values either so we can rule out e all right
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cindy does the author's support a thesis with pertinent examples
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or apply a generalization knew specific case Well these are
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both logic based argument tactics and they sound like things
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that would be in a scientific essay but this author's
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writing is a little more flowery and ethereal and it
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doesn't rely much on inductive or deductive reasoning so we
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can cross out sandy All right what about d Does
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that piece use historical narrative to illustrate concepts Well the
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author does refer to certain concepts like the youth of
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the world but he doesn't provide a historical narrative He
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goes right into the men of the world and doesn't
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give us any historical contacts for the behavior of the
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youth let's get be out of there which leaves us
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with a besides the fact that it's our only remaining
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option we can see in the texas He often provides
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a definition of poetry and reinforces his argument using principles
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throughout the beast that kind of person So there you
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have it as easy as a gentle breeze on a
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slightly warm day but still nice like seventy two degrees
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as ye olde meteorologists predicted so one may only need
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a long sleeved shirt to keep the warmth within thy
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heart and i sleeves all right yeah we won't put
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our day job anytime soon You
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