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AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 1
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 1. In the context of the passage, what does the word "compass" in line 15 mean?

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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 2. What does the word "want" mean in the context of line 20?

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AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 3. The term "picayune" is best understood as what?

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The word "bark" (line 16) is used


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No Okay Next up AP English lit people Big fat

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home which is going to kind of crew threw it

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here and looking and just kind of winking at it

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first Here we go The question the word bark like

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a dog is used How line sixteen Let's just go

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up there and check it out How orderly the kitchen

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look by night with just a clock but they could

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gag the tick and mice won't bark will die every

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like a two year old kid knows that from a

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C and say you're speaking say or whatever then nothing

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You turned well Let's see my stone park yet We

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know that in fact mice don't really make any stone

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that's audible to a person Except for maybe like high

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pitched squeaking noise or something like that they're court To

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say that they bark is a pretty aggressive action that's

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on ly bested by a roar in the mouse that

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roared the our mighty mouse hero to save the day

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That one Yeah that's the opposite of what's expected which

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is irony So it's bee ironically ah euphemism No that's

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not a guy who's been surgically altered to have a

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high voice A euphemism is when a polite word is

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used in place of an inappropriate word which doesn't apply

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to the delightful sounds that might make a squeak squeak

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If someone is using ordered pedantic Lee it means that

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they're trying to show off their learning like we do

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it from up here all day long And bark isn't

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sophisticated enough to qualify so get you to see Bark

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might qualify as a gross exaggeration of the sound mice

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make E But it's specifically being used for its irony

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here and the author's overall playful tone in this stands

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up suggested Well she's not using bark in a contemptuous

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way so get rid of the The answer is B

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ironically is in mouse sickly or something like that Greek 00:01:49.88 --> [endTime] week

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