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ASVAB Word Knowledge: Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of these words is closest in meaning to incoherent?
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 6 205 Views
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 6. The form of this poem can best be described as what?
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by the letter O. In poems, it magically becomes a word....
- 00:21
The form of this poem can BEST be described as... what?
- 00:26
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:31
Nothing to do here but rely on our extensive knowledge of poem types.
- 00:37
The only one we really can rule out if we didn't know would be D -- a series of quatrains.
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- 00:43
"Quat" indicates 4... and there are neither 4 lines in each stanza, nor 4 stanzas... so
- 00:53
we can pretty sure that one's not the droid we're looking for...
- 00:57
A villanelle is always exactly nineteen lines... which means we're one short. We can scratch
- 01:05
A.
- 01:06
Is it a sonnet? Hm... certainly feels like a sonnet. The lovey-dovey subject matter is
- 01:11
definitely sonnet-esque.
- 01:13
But unfortunately, we have the same problem here as we did with the villanelle... a sonnet
- 01:17
must be 14 lines. B is out. There's no way it's blank verse, because blank
- 01:22
verse doesn't rhyme, and this... does.
- 01:25
So then... it's gotta be C, right? A series of sestets?
- 01:29
You betcha. A sestet is a six-line stanza... and we've got three stanzas.
- 01:34
Sorry to make you mix your literature and your arithmetic, but... advanced calculus
- 01:38
tells us that 3 times 6 is 18.
- 01:41
So our answer is C.
- 01:43
O happy day.
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