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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: The Meaning of Sad and Low 5 Views


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The aural imagery of chords "sad and low" (line 15) serves to


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Sorry Okay Next up ap English Lit People are still

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on this fine poem What Question Just get to it

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The R roll imagery of chords sad and low line

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fifteen right there Serves toe What What does it do

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Well let's think about it Music is a great way

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to have cathartic experiences where one purges emotions often too

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difficult and complex to put into words Well the speaker

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seems to be taking advantage of that special quality that

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sad and low music can have using it to express

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the nearly well inexpressible So it's B They're illustrated cathartic

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experience shared with mourners Yeah well the loser bowl music

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that is sad and low wasn't exactly joyful Get rid

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of sea and let's hear the Grim Reaper something And

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the description of the cords is separate from the actual

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proceedings of funeral So get rid of eat If music

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is being played well silence doesn't seem obtainable like Where

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did that come from Which isn't necessarily what Speaker wants

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anyway The physical setting isn't is important Here is the

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action is taking place When in doubt look at what's

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moving Not just what's being described in answering these questions

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so that's it The answer is B

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