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AP English Language: Describing Descriptions 13 Views


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The description in lines 89–92 ("To say. . . slave traders") is meant to


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Okay Peeing langer's last question for you in this section

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The description in lines eighty nine to ninety two is

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meant to what Eighty nine says to say the least

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it must have been an odd scene The foul crowded

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ship like a floating slum densely packed with brutalized black

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captives compelled the sing by whip bearing white slave traders

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It's an arresting scene but its primary goal is to

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depict the cultural experience that led to the blues After

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all the music isn't called the gleeful pastel inks or

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the cheerful butter yellows Yeah that was not the blues

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The description is supposed to evoke some kind of response

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from the reader but of course one that's relevant to

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the passage itself White racism and cruelty is an a

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and black oppression is indy Are parts of this story

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but not the main points One intention is certainly to

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show how long history the blues has c though not

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to suggest that blacks had initially been forced to sing

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it because the songs on slave ships weren't well yet

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Officially the blues So get rid of heat right answer

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here It's meant to describe the kind of suffering that

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birth blues music that exists today

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