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AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 1. Which of the following best describes the speaker's attitude towards immortality?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 6. Lines 17-18 imply that the speaker's greatest concern is what?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 6. Which of the following most closely matches the speaker's feelings about aging?
AP English Literature: Reading Into the Speaker's Tone 9 Views
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The speaker's tone in lines 13-18 ("How orderly…none will") is best described as
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No Okay AP English people next question for you big
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fat poem which is going to kind of cruise through
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it here and looking and just kind of winking at
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it first The speaker's tone in lines thirteen through eighteen
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and we'll get there in a sec is best described
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as what Let's go to thirteen here Lucky thirteen or
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all A big How orderly the kitchen look by night
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with just a clock but they could gag the tick
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and mice won't bark And so the walls don't tell
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None will be beautiful Well Speaker sounds as if she's
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getting right in on the Robert sneaky antics here in
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these lines she describes the house like she's entered it
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in her head How orderly the kitchen look by night
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with just a clock which explains how the robbers would
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act They could gag the clocks tick and you know
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how they be safe because the wiles don't tell Yeah
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well these air great lines almost too great The speaker
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probably won't be invited Teo shmoop headquarters anytime soon because
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well she just above our pay grade Okay So let's
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think about this Writing is there's got to be D
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It's deductive and cunning Yeah we could use her but
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writer here you know if you want a job we're
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hiring here it's OK Moving on the loser bowl Well
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the speaker definitely does not sound too indifferent So get
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rid of a or reserved here though you know since
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it seems like she's pretty interested in what's going down
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there's certainly some mystery in her voice But she's not
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talking about murdering the old folks which would be ruthless
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even if one of them was named Roof Get her
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to be well be ruthless after she was gone There's
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nothing particularly academic in what she's saying either So get
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rid of sea And although she sounds interested she's not
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brimming with excitement and passion Fruit of E We do
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all that stuff for you from up here No extra 00:01:53.92 --> [endTime] charge That's it Cancer's deep deductive cunning
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