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The brevity of the fifth paragraph (lines 142–144) emphasizes


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No Okay AP English People Last question of this Siri's

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Here we go The brevity of the fifth paragraph on

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line one forty one forty for their emphasizes What Alright

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so crews to the very brief ending thing here But

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when a young lady is to be a heroin the

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perverse nous of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her something

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must and will happen to throw a hero in her

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way It's a very brief By the end of chapter

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we see that Catherine Morland is determined to become a

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heroine however unsuited for it she may naturally be and

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she is so so unsuited for it The juxtaposition of

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the extremely long proceeding Paragraph two This one short paragraph

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serves as a kind of punctuation like they're so they're

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factorial exclamation point It's the author's cites a massively long

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list of reasons as to why Katherine isn't cut out

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for heroism but changes course Lyn fifth paragraph So essentially

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well dropped the mic and say what Yeah that's pretty

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much it D Catherine's determination to become a heroine That's

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what it's all about That's what it emphasizes thereby being

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so brief Well the other family's heir mentioned Teo emphasize

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the lack of hero So get rid of Geet in

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Katherine's anger isn't the emphasis of the paragraph so give

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it a B If there are no heroes to be

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found Catherine will need to seek them out So get

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rid of A and the specific difficulties involved in becoming

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a heroine are not even mentioned So get rid of

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See so that's it It's D Catherine's determination and D

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as in Well we're done at least with this one

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