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AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 7. The use of a very short sentence in lines 83-85 is most likely intended to what?

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The use of a very short sentence in lines 83-85 is most likely intended to... what?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Ooh-ee... we love short sentences. Less to read, less to analyze. Which means more time to play Assassin's Creed.

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Okay, so this sentence wants to know what the shorty in lines 83 through 85 is intended to do.

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Let's take a gander...

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"And Ralph always wound up these mental soliloquies by arriving at the conclusion, that there

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was nothing like money."

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All right, so... he loves cash. Got it.

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What does that tell us? Does it tell us... that the author wanted

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to conclude the passage abruptly?

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We should just be able to tell without reading the line that this is a bogus answer.

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When would an author ever write a short sentence purely because he's getting bored, or antsy,

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or because his brownies are burning?

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No way can this be the reason... Is the sentence short to prove that the passage is a soliloquy?

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No, because, well... it isn't a soliloquy. If one of the Nickleby's was telling us all

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this, maybe... but it's being narrated in third person.

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So... there's no "solo" to make the... "iloquy." Is it to show the narrator's dislike of Ralph?

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Or to demonstrate Ralph's dislike of his younger brother?

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There's no mention or implication of "dislike" whatsoever here, so... we can scratch C and

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D. Which leaves us with E -- to emphasize the

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importance Ralph places on money.

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Makes sense. It's short, sweet and to the point. Ralph... heart... money.

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