AP English Language and Composition 9.4 Passage Drill

word here a word there Here a little there A

little here A little You were all right The rhetorical

function of the alien liar in paragraph two Beginning line

twenty is tio What and hear potential answers are the

rhetorical function Sounds like an oxymoron All right is the

rhetorical function of the lyre To describe how impressions excite

human behavior Well there's nothing in the text about the

liar representing human endeavor So we can rule this one

out right away People are not like the heart because

the heart is subject to every gust of wind While

people can adjust to the wind as it changes let's

look at sea Does the liar portray how the senses

combined for harmonious effect Well this is a nice idea

There's also no mention of the harmonious nous of the

senses in the text So this is another easy one

to rule out is the liar Analogy suggests that artist

tune themselves to their surroundings Well if you look back

and be we know that tuning toe one surroundings is

what separates all humans from liars not just artists If

all people doing to their surroundings and there's nothing unique

about artists in this context and we can rule out

deep by mentioning the liar Does the author imply that

imagination worth with nature to produce art well on the

superhero team of imagination and art are teaming up to

fight dullness Sounds pretty cool again We have an answer

here that is not mentioned in the text This connection

is never made for us so we don't have to

consider it when deciding what the correct answer is Our

only remaining option is a so let's hope It's the

right one Let's look at ambrose bierce is the devil's

dictionary published in nineteen o six Because it's hard to

find any more recent mentions of liars in this satirical

dictionary beers to find the lyre as an ancient instrument

of torture the word is now used in a figurative

sense to denote poetic faculty Well bierce is clearly a

man After shelley's own heart denoting the poetic faculty or

talking about poetry for those of you who live in

the twenty first century is exactly what the essay is

getting It that's Why option a depicts how various experiences

act on the mind is the correct choice When the

author says that man is an instrument over which a

siri's of external and internal impressions or driven he is

not saying that people are literally instruments Instead he's talking

about how experiences affect the mind and how the mind

reacts to those experiences And as we figured out earlier

humans differ from the liar in this simile because they

can produce harmony and make adjustments to the wind On

the fly is our final answer Good work everyone rock 00:02:34.243 --> [endTime] on