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AP English Language and Composition 9.2 Passage Drill. Which of the following rhetorical strategies does the author employ?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by poetry be laboring the point

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for untold centuries Okay check the following passage and maybe

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grab a snack or something Cause it's a doozy Eighteen

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twenty one Yeah they got paid by the word back

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in and this guy made a whole lot of money

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because look at all these words and we're just going

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to scroll scramble scramble scramble And yeah we're done Okay

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dante and paradise And where Yeah okay here's the question

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which of the following rhetorical strategy Says the author employed

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and here are potential answers right We're looking for rhetorical

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strategy is what on earth is that All right Well

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let's knock down each choice like bowling pins on a

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fine spring day because the author make his argument by

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appealing to common sentiments in values Well as we know

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from the first question the writer's trying to convince the

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reader that poetry is a pretty big deal and that

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it's vital to society it's probably safe to assume that

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this was not a commonly held belief that time you

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wrote the piece so we can eliminate this answer If

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the author's ideas on poetry were common values he wouldn't

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have felt the need to write an essay especially one

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this huge his arguments don't appeal to common sentiments and

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values either so we can rule out e all right

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cindy does the author's support a thesis with pertinent examples

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or apply a generalization knew specific case Well these are

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both logic based argument tactics and they sound like things

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that would be in a scientific essay but this author's

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writing is a little more flowery and ethereal and it

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doesn't rely much on inductive or deductive reasoning so we

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can cross out sandy All right what about d Does

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that piece use historical narrative to illustrate concepts Well the

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author does refer to certain concepts like the youth of

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the world but he doesn't provide a historical narrative He

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goes right into the men of the world and doesn't

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give us any historical contacts for the behavior of the

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youth let's get be out of there which leaves us

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with a besides the fact that it's our only remaining

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option we can see in the texas He often provides

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a definition of poetry and reinforces his argument using principles

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throughout the beast that kind of person So there you

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have it as easy as a gentle breeze on a

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slightly warm day but still nice like seventy two degrees

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as ye olde meteorologists predicted so one may only need

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a long sleeved shirt to keep the warmth within thy

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heart and i sleeves all right yeah we won't put

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our day job anytime soon You

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