AP English Language and Composition 9.4 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 9.4 Passage Drill
AP English Language and Composition | Passage Drill |
Language | English Language |
Rhetorical Function, Strategy, and Purpose | Rhetorical Function |
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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