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AP English Literature and Composition 1.8 Passage Drill 2
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.8 Passage Drill 2. What is the principle effect of the author's allusions in lines 10-11?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 5
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 5. What is the principle effect of the anaphora in lines 10-12?

AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 5
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 5. Which of the following lines best expresses a paradox?

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AP English Literature: Imagery and Setting the Mood 21 Views


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The imagery in lines 19-24 ("A pair…who's there") best serves to create the effect of


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No Okay AP English People next question for you Here

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we go Big fat home We're just going to kind

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of cruise through it here and looking and just kind

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of winking at it first The imagery in lines nineteen

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through twenty four We'll get there in a sec Best

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serves to create the effect of what our imagery lines

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nineteen three twenty dollars has read it A pair of

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spectacles ajar just er and almanacs aware Was it the

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mat wink or a nervous star The moon slides down

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the stair to see who's there Can we click Goodnight

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moon but with creepy shadows Well let's think about this

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As all of the objects in the house appear to

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come alive upon sight of the robbers only immediately feel

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a sense of mystery and intrigue We're not sure what's

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going to happen acts but the house itself looks as

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if it's carefully watching every movement The house is alive

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Yeah all right So the correct answer is B It's

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a heightening of the poems Mysterious mood That's what it

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does All right Loser bowl Well aside from the flight

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of fancy this poem takes We don't have a reason

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to assume the speaker is being unreliable like Where'd that

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come from Get rid of egg robbers by occupations and

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the robber union Local twenty four need to be cunning

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but the imagery isn't focused On how slick they are

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So get rid of scene Just kind of creepy We

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might feel a bit scared for the older folks sleeping

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but the word terror denotes something way more severe than

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his presented here is to get Rudy And finally while

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the poet certainly has her lyrical moments we're not seeing

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too many in these lines in order We notice any

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sort of consistent rhyme or meter to add that lyrical

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quality So get rid of E The answer Here It's 00:01:43.47 --> [endTime] B Tightening the poems Mysterious move No

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