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

AP English Literature: Unpacking Emotions
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The list in lines 28-30, ("you make take sarza for the liver…castoreum for the brain") chiefly serves to

AP English Literature: Tiething the Knot
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The phrase "it is that which tieth the knot" (line 45) is best understood as

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The phrase "it is that which tieth the knot" (line 45) is best understood as


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Sorry Okay AP English people last one of this section

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for these paragraphs that we've beaten to death Question the

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phrase it is that which Tyus the not online forty

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five Let's look at it right there is best understood

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as what What Use that phrase Well The author really

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likes the Roman name for friends participate a cure a

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rum or shares in care and uses the metaphor of

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a not to show how close friends become a few

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lines letter He invokes this image again when he says

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that Prince is often times joined to themselves some of

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their servants Yeah line forty eight right there It's what

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it said meaning they be friend Their servants kind of

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like tying the knot but without you know tiered wedding

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cakes So the answer is a It's a metaphor for

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the friendship between princes and servants Well even though and

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not can have negative connotations My grandmother's and have been

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working on the same not her shoe lace for three

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days Now it's not getting any better The author isn't

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using it to show how complicated or permanent friends can

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be So get rid of E and B and there

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is no absolution to a Roman friendship Get rid of

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C and the point of this whole paragraph is that

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princes sacrificed their superiority to become equals with their servants

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So get rid of me there Yeah does it Answers 00:01:33.01 --> [endTime] is in Well we're all done what

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