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AP English Language and Composition 8.3 Passage Drill. What most accurately describes the effect the author achieves by including several French expressions in paragraph 2?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too

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Sure brought to you by ze french way would have

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preferred if they brought a nice bag adding some cheese

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but well we'll take this instead Okay look the following

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passage right there frenchman visits england and he's in the

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arts They got a lot of free english in their

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french english unclench All right here's our question what most

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accurately describes the effect The author cheese by including several

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french expressions in paragraph two and here are potential answers

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and you ve bloody fran's right that's art in order

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to answer a question we the readers need to look

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for the message that isn't actually written on the page

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Sometimes this is called reading between the lines but sometimes

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it's just sneaky spy's using invisible ink as well So

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all right so let's assume it's the former before we

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read the lines let's tackle the easy answers first starting

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with a they say that the author's use of french

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is done just to impress others That well that just

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doesn't make any sense that no other point this reading

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because she seemed concerned about what her readers think of

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Her so with that in mind answer is a firm

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no while we're at it answer dea said then collect

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if she's trying to flatter her british readers by assuming

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they know french why would she then include the english

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translations Short answer She wouldn't long answer she would not

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So why would the author include those phrases Well the

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author's entire point with this paragraph is illustrate that although

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the english and the french are very different they're still

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able to respect each other despite those defaults says the

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other states that a frenchman might be boarded english state

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dinners and then an englishman might find french humor a

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bit stale but in the end they can agree to

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disagree without arguing over whose culture is better So it

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sounds like the author is suggesting that the french and

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english get along quite well So does that mean answer

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b is correct Well no not necessarily That point would

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be clear in this paragraph even without the french phrases

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so answer b is probably not what the other was

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after when she decided to speak french with you off

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it was actually shooting for was a subtle way to

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x presto her readers seeing we brits even respect french

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culture even to learn a bit of the language Look

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wessel who she probably knew him Avoid saying the red

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fish though Well what the other is right In between

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the lines is her belief that americans would never bother

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to do that out of a lack of respect other

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cultures the french phrases air used to support the author's

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overall point that americans think too much of their own

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culture and not enough of everyone else's come to think

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of it well that sounds a lot like answer c

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which an american would say is ridiculous They love french

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culture the fries the toast the towers live apostle who's 00:02:38.66 --> [endTime] maybe it's a good point

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