AP English Language and Composition 4.7 Passage Drill
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most And here the potential answers Understatement alliteration Metaphor huh
All right Well we need a strong grasp on the
whole passage for this one way Don't have one It
might be a good idea to skim through the past
again with all these options in mind and do it
quickly because these test time yet option d thinks the
speaker is being ironic the whole time Like alanis morissette
number isn't it I want it And you can use
the word wrong so don't follow her lead anyway If
that were so the speaker would be saying the opposite
of what he means to make the point and ironic
speech is sort of a wink wink nudge nudge situation
like a black fly in your chardonnay As faras we
can tell the speaker is saying exactly what he means
We declare this speech irony free answer b says that
speaker uses a lot of a literary ation or words
that begin with the same constant sound If this were
true the speaker's speech might sound like this The quota
of questions makes me quiver quack and quake willie Luckily
the speech sounds nothing like that We're gonna have to
say no it a choice A speaker doesn't seem all
that in tow Understatement Where does he purposely downplay anything
We'll know where that we can see if anything he's
an exaggeration feet he claims the speaker is sweet on
similes but the speaker doesn't use many besides the facebook
status worthy similarly about the violin If you want to
make that quote your facebook status well we won't judge
options He gets it right all sorts of tricks or
pulled out of the hat But metaphor is the speaker's
favorite For example the whole immortality sunrise infancy bid is
a metaphor with a capital m And as we all
know capitalized metaphors are way better than the ones in 00:02:09.38 --> [endTime] lower case