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AP English Language and Composition 4.1 Passage Drill. Which of the following does the speaker present as similar?

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by shakespeare This guy killed off more people than jack

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the ripper All right well here's the phrase read it

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odyssey experience more dying people I special All right we're

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ready Which of the following ideas does the speaker present

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as similar And here the potential answers All right read

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them and weep a lot A lot of death All

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right so what are we being asked Well we have

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five answer choices and each one is a pair of

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ideas were supposed to find the two that the speaker

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refers to his being similar So even if we personally

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feel immortal when we watch twilight well it doesn't matter

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It's all about the speaker Let's take these things one

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by one and okay we'll start with the immortality thing

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and twilight So here's the line where the speaker waxes

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about twilight his physical life was but as an embryonic

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stage a coming up out of darkness a twilight and

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dawn before the sunrise of that life of the world

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to come which he was to enjoy here after ok

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so he's saying that shakespeare is immortal in a sense

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but it's more than dawn that relates to that immortality

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Twilight part refers to the end of his physical life

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So no matter how much his memory may live on

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he probably didn't rise up out of his grave the

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night he was buried and start writing macbeth to the

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revenge this time It's personal All right so what about

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choice b Playing an instrument and delivering a speech Speaker

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compares playing the violin to conducting one's life which isn't

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quite the same thing is making a speech oh skippy

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see unconscious and conscious memory close but it is actually

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unconscious and conscious lives that air compared not memory who

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settled We wish our unconscious memory would tell our conscious

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memory where we left our car keys That happens a

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lot Wait till you get older All right how about

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de death and money in line thirty three the speaker

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refers to the life after death as being like money

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not death itself so he is out But which leaves

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us just with e this better be right shakespeare and

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teachers And yet this is the one speaker says that

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shakespeare in teachers both attain immortality through their work So

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it is other similarities He doesn't mention well they both

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love standing in front of crowds of people they both

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like using big complicated words and they both really like 00:02:45.24 --> [endTime] strip steak Not sure why that is

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