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AP English Language and Composition 9.5 Passage Drill. Which of the following does the author not imply or assert in paragraph 3?
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one All right which of the falling Does the author
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not assert or imply in paragraph three And here are
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potential answers There we go No and we're going to
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get paragraph three here pretty quick All right Does the
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author researcher imply that aesthetic order in the past has
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carried over to the present Well the author discusses order
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in the sixth line of paragraph three For there is
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a certain order or rhythm belonging to each of these
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classes of min medic representation from which the hearer and
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the spectator receive an intense er and pure pleasure than
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from any other The sense of an approximation to this
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order has been called taste by modern writers All right
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Well by telling us what modern writers call this concept
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we can assume that concept has been around for a
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while So the authors implying that aesthetic order in the
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past has carried over to the present but also a
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is not our answer Does the author assert or imply
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that the rhythms of dance music and language mimic nature
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Well the author makes this assertion pretty plainly in the
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first lines of paragraph three in the youth of the
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world men dance and sing and imitate natural objects observing
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in these actions as in all others a certain rhythm
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or order well the youth of the world imitating nature
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through art may not be as obvious is dancing babies
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raining from the sky but we have a pretty strong
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message here So be is not our answer Does the
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author imply that order and rhythm differ according to the
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art that expresses them Well again if we can decipher
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the outdated english we find this answer pretty clearly stated
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in the text And although all men observe a similar
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they observed not the same order in the motions of
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dance in the melody of song in the combinations of
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language in the series of their limitations of natural objects
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For there is a certain order or rhythm belonging to
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each of these classes of mma medic representation Well while
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no medic representation may sound like something related to the
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practice of mining It actually refers to an imitation of
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the real world and art which probably includes mining way
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Suppose this quote not only provides further proof for our
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art mimics nature answer But it tells us that each
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form of nomadic representation has a different order and rhythm
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which also tells us that sea is not the correct
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answer Alright let's look att eat because the author assert
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or implied that art gives pleasure conforms to an intrinsic
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order This may be a bold statement It may disappoint
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picasso but again we can find it right in the
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text If we finish the last sense we looked at
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we can see the author answers this question as well
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For there is a certain order or rhythm belonging to
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each of these classes of nomadic representation from which the
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hearer and the spectator receive an intensive and pure pleasure
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than from any other Well this is a pretty unequivocal
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assertion The author definitely believes hearers and spectators get more
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pleasure from ordered art than from a gn ordered art
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Sorry picasso All right let's Get e out of our
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lives Once again we're left with one option So let's
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helps a good one Does the other sort of implied
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that refined taste is essential to appreciating artistic expression Well
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while a refined taste might be necessary to appreciate escargot
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it is not essential to appreciating artistic expression at least
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according to our author He mentions taste but never says
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you need it in order to enjoy art So our
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answer is d another literary mystery solved philosophizing that
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