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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: Unpacking Emotions 6 Views


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


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Sorry Okay Next up for AP lit people Here we

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go We're still talking about thes paragraphs right here All

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this stuff The list in lines twenty eight through thirty

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You make take blah blah blah blah blah for the

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brain Chiefly serves Tio What What's the list All right

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twenty eight through thirty Those lines Well the narrator says

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how dangerous diseases of stoppings are and then lists common

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remedies like flowers of sulphur for the lungs you know

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and for the record death My grandmother recommends prescribed antibiotics

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instead And let's not use those flowers However emotional problems

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are a little trickier No receipt right there opens the

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heart meaning there's no prescription for a trusting friendship Right

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Everyone rolls their own So the answer is the contrast

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the case of clearing the body with the difficulty of

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emotional openness and loser ball Well the list is meant

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to draw a distinction between physical and emotional stoppings meaning

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it isn't literally referring to health So get rid of

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the or hygiene Get rid of seat Likewise the speaker

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doesn't mention anything about the physical a or intellectual be

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world In fact only probably say that they're unimportant compared

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to the emotional bond between friends Wesa we're dialing up

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the bachelor here real quick anyway That said the Andrews

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D uh

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