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AP English Literature: How to Convey a Mysterious Voice 2 Views


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The speaker's mysterious voice is derived mainly from her use of


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Yeah Oh okay Last one up here for you AP

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English lit people Big fat home We're just going to

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kind of cruise through it here and looking and just

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kind of winking at it first The speaker's mysterious voices

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derived mainly from her use of what way Don't see

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a microphone in there anywhere All right well if it

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weren't for all those rhetorical questions that come from any

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number of objects asking who's there Well there wouldn't be

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the kind of heightened intrigue that there is in this

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poem The speaker deliberately presents this mystery in a manner

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that's constantly unfolding and uncertain so that well we get

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her mysterious vibe there So answer is E rhetorical questions

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like Why is this the case Why is that the

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case Yeah alright loser bowl Well the speaker's infrequent crime

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doesn't create any mystery Get rid of That is kind

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of like terrible While any use of my autonomy would

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not exactly be beneficial in making the speaker sound mystical

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be just odd So get rid of it While the

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author does use words with similar sounds they're not strung

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along to make an alliteration One twister thingy there So

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get rid of a figurative language can leave an impact

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on the tone But the rhetorical questions being asked in

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this poem are done So with a very whispery strange

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voice Now think that well this voice and the amount

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of objects asking questions in the poem combined for one

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wild ride So we're done with this from We've killed

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it We've murdered it and then stolen the poor old 00:01:35.93 --> [endTime] lady's clock That's it It's rhetorical questions CIA

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