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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 7. What is the principal rhetorical function of paragraphs one to three?

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AP English Language and Composition 7.8 Passage Drill. What best characterizes the rhetorical function "in relation to the human mind Nature is bou...

AP English Language and Composition 9.4 Passage Drill

AP English Language and Composition 10.6 Passage Drill. The rhetorical reason for referring to Moses and the Decalogue is most likely to what?

In lines 33–34, the author writes that "ambition would induce them to aspire to office, and commands and honors, to form cabals against their com...

The primary purpose of including Nasmyth's story (lines 15–17) is to

In lines 63–65, the author writes that "The popular comedian Richard Pryor infamously set himself on fire while trying to cook up freebase in 198...

The author most likely provides Ricky Ross' backstory in lines 64–65 in order to

In the first paragraph, the extended metaphor of mining serves to

What is the author's likely strategy in connecting science to "common sense" (lines 10, 14, 15)?

The chief purpose of lines 36–37 ("Such common knowledge is rather brought than sought") is to

By using the specific imagery in lines 27–29 ("But to say…processes"), the author chiefly suggests that blues music

The description in lines 89–92 ("To say. . . slave traders") is meant to

The author writes that Americans "need be tormented with no such fear" (lines 61–62) in order to

The phrase "a spider web of railroads" (line 14) is used in order to

The author uses the phrase "political factory" (line 33) in order to

The author uses the phrase "Nebraska's version of a big city" (lines 41–42) in order to

The primary purpose of the first two paragraphs (lines 1–15) is to

The organization of the passage can best be described as