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AP English Literature: Inferring About the Luggnaggians
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According to the information presented in the first and second paragraph (lines 1-26), it can be reasonably inferred that the kingdom of the Luggna...

AP English Literature: Inexpressible Adjectives
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In line 27, the adjective "inexpressible" is used

AP English Literature: Restating the Main Idea
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The main idea of the second paragraph (lines 24-33) can best be restated that

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The couplet in lines 8-9 ("He was born…the harvesting") serves to


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Sorry Okay We're still on this excellent poem here Excellent

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ish The question Let's just get to it Couplets in

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lines eight nine He was born And yet together the

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harvesting serves to what What is it What's its purpose

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Purpose Well all right because the speaker's love was born

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in the spring and died before the harvesting But we

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definitely noticed the cyclical aspects of nature and life here

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Harvest time is usually when crops are reaped its their

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natural death when something dies before harvesting and then you

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know before its time that's sad and unnatural Well the

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couple it gives that idea some extra oomph placing the

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natural life cycle in the forefront of the reader's mind

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So the answer is d their accent the natural cycles

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Right Okay well loser ball The speaker's morning in and

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untimely loss of love and see there are definitely in

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play here but cycles of death or the larger concept

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that her sadness is involved with Which is why spring

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is mentioned at all Right Time of rebirth blah blah

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There aren't comparisons being made between love and spring Spring

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just happens to be the time of the speakers Misery

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So get rid of be there The harvest time could

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give away some details about the setting you know like

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a says there But the couplets is set on highlighting

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the natural life cycle that involves everyone including the speaker

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So that's it The answer is D is in well 00:01:33.11 --> [endTime] death

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