AP English Literature: Barking Mice
The word "bark" (line 16) is used
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Transcript
up there and check it out How orderly the kitchen
look by night with just a clock but they could
gag the tick and mice won't bark will die every
like a two year old kid knows that from a
C and say you're speaking say or whatever then nothing
You turned well Let's see my stone park yet We
know that in fact mice don't really make any stone
that's audible to a person Except for maybe like high
pitched squeaking noise or something like that they're court To
say that they bark is a pretty aggressive action that's
on ly bested by a roar in the mouse that
roared the our mighty mouse hero to save the day
That one Yeah that's the opposite of what's expected which
is irony So it's bee ironically ah euphemism No that's
not a guy who's been surgically altered to have a
high voice A euphemism is when a polite word is
used in place of an inappropriate word which doesn't apply
to the delightful sounds that might make a squeak squeak
If someone is using ordered pedantic Lee it means that
they're trying to show off their learning like we do
it from up here all day long And bark isn't
sophisticated enough to qualify so get you to see Bark
might qualify as a gross exaggeration of the sound mice
make E But it's specifically being used for its irony
here and the author's overall playful tone in this stands
up suggested Well she's not using bark in a contemptuous
way so get rid of the The answer is B
ironically is in mouse sickly or something like that Greek 00:01:49.88 --> [endTime] week