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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?
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The quotations in lines 30–31 ("as a result…history") and lines 51–53 ("White…got there") most share which of the following relationships?
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Okay Ap england still singing the blues The quotations in
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line thirty death thirty one As a result there were
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two insect and lines Fifty one fifty three uh why
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bubba But most share which of the following relationships the
- 00:18
blues One problem Rogers He hasn't happened as a result
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of one group of people being forced to enter another's
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history and then fifty one to hear classic blues queen
- 00:26
maat raining telling white folks here the blues come out
- 00:28
but they don't know how i got there Yeah the
- 00:30
tone or the message The quote shouldn't have seemed particularly
- 00:34
noticeable Right tone The fact that they're both sighted should
- 00:37
have one is from a historian not necessarily a blues
- 00:40
fan and ones from an actual sir singer the first
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And it's kind of historical analysis of the blues cold
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and not soulful from the second It's really just a
- 00:49
personal opinion That's why using primary and secondary sources is
- 00:53
important people Primary sources often say something more personal in
- 00:57
specific coming from an actual contemporary source where a secondary
- 01:01
sources you know like the cold profiteer say something more
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general and instructive like you know scholarly Even it's the
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difference between having a biographer say well so and so's
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academic career change drastically after obtaining a five on the
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a p english language exam and then you writing an
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update online about facing this beast oven exam involving all
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caps eighteen exclamation points and sixteen different emoticons The second
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quote isn't hopeful Get rid of a and there's nothing
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that indicates the historian is a blues fan Get rid
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of the aura musician Get rid of e While both
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quotes point to a relationship between the blues and race
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relations there's nothing really disparaging behind there A word choice
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So get rid of see the answer here is the
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the first is from a secondary source while the second
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is from a primary source That's it It's the
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