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AP English Language and Composition 1.2 Passage Drill
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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: Passage Drill 1, Problem 8. The quotation marks in the third paragraph chiefly serve to what?

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Which of the following is an accurate reading of footnote 2?


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Okay Ap england learners next up Which of the following

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is an accurate reading of footnote to huh That's interesting

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All right let's go find footnote to where are you

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Footnote to quoted in dorothy winbush Riley add my soul

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looks back less I forget harper in nineteen ninety three

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All right so let's think about this Knowing footnotes secret

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code here makes them easier to decipher Here's the translation

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of this one Dorothy winbush Riley is the editor of

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my soul looks back les i forget which was published

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by harper reference publishers in nineteen ninety three Right that's

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the translation right there We just read it The quotation

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she includes from ma rainey is on page thirty six

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from the book What we should notice right away is

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that while rainey is the author of the quotation she

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isn't the author of the book That means she's quoted

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in another person's work like riley's which is then quoted

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in this work Yes it's confusing but not if we

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know the secret code At least there is in the

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secret handshake here release that we know of So dorothy

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winbush riley was the editor of my soul Looks back

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less i forget not the writer Get rid of a

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and the quote in question isn't from riley herself be

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Riley was the editor of the book not the magazine

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So get rid of sea And the footnotes states that

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the book was published in nineteen ninety three Not the

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actual magazine is indy Self answer here is e dorothy

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winbush Riley quoted ma rainey on page thirty six and 00:01:31.434 --> [endTime] well that's it

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