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The speaker's tone in lines 13-18 ("How orderly…none will") is best described as


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No Okay AP English people next question for you big

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fat poem which is going to kind of cruise through

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it here and looking and just kind of winking at

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it first The speaker's tone in lines thirteen through eighteen

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and we'll get there in a sec is best described

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as what Let's go to thirteen here Lucky thirteen or

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all A big How orderly the kitchen look by night

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with just a clock but they could gag the tick

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and mice won't bark And so the walls don't tell

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None will be beautiful Well Speaker sounds as if she's

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getting right in on the Robert sneaky antics here in

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these lines she describes the house like she's entered it

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in her head How orderly the kitchen look by night

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with just a clock which explains how the robbers would

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act They could gag the clocks tick and you know

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how they be safe because the wiles don't tell Yeah

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well these air great lines almost too great The speaker

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probably won't be invited Teo shmoop headquarters anytime soon because

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well she just above our pay grade Okay So let's

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think about this Writing is there's got to be D

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It's deductive and cunning Yeah we could use her but

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writer here you know if you want a job we're

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hiring here it's OK Moving on the loser bowl Well

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the speaker definitely does not sound too indifferent So get

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rid of a or reserved here though you know since

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it seems like she's pretty interested in what's going down

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there's certainly some mystery in her voice But she's not

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talking about murdering the old folks which would be ruthless

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even if one of them was named Roof Get her

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to be well be ruthless after she was gone There's

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nothing particularly academic in what she's saying either So get

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rid of sea And although she sounds interested she's not

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brimming with excitement and passion Fruit of E We do

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all that stuff for you from up here No extra 00:01:53.92 --> [endTime] charge That's it Cancer's deep deductive cunning

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