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CAHSEE 7.4 Passage Drill. What makes the preceding statement ironic?

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Hurry And here's your shmoop dooz your brought to you

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by irony it's like rain on your wedding day Well

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actually it's not number alanis morissette that one song is

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huge isn't it ironic Okay read this excerpt from the

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selection Let us abolish policeman who carry clubs and revolvers

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and put in a squad of poets armed to the

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teeth with poems on spring and love All that'll go

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over real well in some parts of the world Well

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what makes the proceeding statement ironic and hear the potential

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answers No all right well some writers like twain use

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irony to make a point while also being funny but

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not funny in a ha ha laugh out loud kind

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of way funny in a wry smile to yourself kind

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of way you know like that anyone who picks choice

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e has no sense humor at all Poets may have

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a general reputation for having their heads in the clouds

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but that's not the point here Anybody who goes for

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option b really wasn't paying attention Twain is ironically suggesting

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that club wielding policeman beer wine by love home wielding

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poets those people when was last time you saw anybody

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violently assaulted by a live home We've been floored to

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listen to a few love bones that were tortuous but

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this wasn't between head in mind We love answers like

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d because they take no brain power to eliminate the

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past It doesn't say anything about tween ever moonlighting as

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a policeman he didn't even like doughnuts The correct answer

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is a the thing that's ironic here is that poems

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about spring in love aren't effective against crime get it

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Ha ha Uh whatever jokes aren't funny if you have 00:01:43.837 --> [endTime] to Explain them

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