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AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 7. What is the function of the parenthetical phrase in lines 42 through 43?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 6. Which of the following best explains the relationship between the title and the content...
AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 6. The function of the couplets in lines 5-6, 11-12, and 17-18 is to what?
AP English Literature: The Purpose of Structure 12 Views
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The purpose of the first stanza (lines 1-12) is primarily to
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No Okay AP English people got another section for your
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big fat Calm Uh we're just gonna kind of cruise
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through it here and looking and just kind of winking
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at it first All right First question Let's just get
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to it The purpose of the first stands and lines
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one through twelve primarily to do what All right let's
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skim and mercifully there short I know some lonely houses
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off the road or Robert like the look of a
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wooden barred and windows hanging low inviting to a portico
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where two could creep one and the tools the other
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peop to make sure all is asleep They're clever Reimers
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Year old fashioned I's not easy to surprise Yeah that's
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an Aerosmith All right Well let's think about this immediately
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We're acquainted with the poems setting and the mysterious fellows
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that hypothetically linger outside the first stands There really gives
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a sense of the location within the poem and the
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fact that something sneaky could happen here So the answer
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is a there to create a setting of sense of
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intrigue Do they do that All right so the loser
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bowl here while sure we have a few characters being
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introduced but it looks like they're getting along just fine
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in their sticky business without any conflicts I'll get rid
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of be There isn't a whole lot of juxtaposition going
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on between the setting or the speaker's tone because well
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we don't hear much about the speaker's perspective So get
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rid of sea There's always an impending theme Get rid
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of the lurking somewhere in the poetry But again the
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focus is on this setting here clearly way more important
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than the lurking thing And we have no idea whether
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Speaker is lonely because well she seems like a spectator
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or avoid you're here or something like that So get
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rid of you So the answer is just a That's
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it It's a sense of intrigue you know kind of 00:01:45.91 --> [endTime] like why you're doing this video
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