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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?

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The tone of paragraph 4 (lines 73–94) can best be described as


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All right people Next up here we go Quick The

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tone of paragraph four can best be described as what

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Let's go there Line seventy three We're going to cruise

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down here and look at it Meanwhile throughout the second

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half twenty century american their peril in textile manager can

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you expand their energy overseas and meanwhile upscale current development

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going going to repaint black market coveted by younger customer

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videos magazines folks brad finally hip hop run dmc on

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indeed soon my adidas So let's think about this The

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tone well this paragraphs generally didactic meaning it's knowledgeable about

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this subject and his intended do instruct the reader like

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that's what it's there is say hey dummy here's all

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the economics of fashion is however that's more like the

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purpose and were being asked about the tone So skim

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through and noticed the brief amusing anecdote about the song

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my adidas Notice that the author mentions all three of

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ah puffy is sean combs names They're puffy p Diddy

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and didi When will he stop What is a puffy

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anyway What is a ditty It's so confusing Those parts

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aren't instructional So get rid of a disdainful get rid

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of b or sarcastic Get rid of he The paragraph

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also isn't energetic or wildly entertaining Cz okay rid of

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c but it is mildly humorous kind of When most

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of the passengers air is dry as a dry saltines

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wealth will take any little giggle weaken get yeah welcome

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to shmoop So the answer here is d It's a

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kind of humorous and anecdotal

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