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AP English Language: Why Is The Author Using Parallelism? 8 Views


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The author makes use of parallelism in lines 33–37 ("The blues…Civil Rights Movement") primarily in order to


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Okay Ap england people Next up for you Here we

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go The author makes use of parallelism in line thirty

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three through thirty seven primarily in order to do what

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and all right let's go to thirty three Kind of

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read through here right The blues His story The frustrations

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have failed to radical reconstruction of violence and oppression the

00:28

jim crow south of the desperation of the sharecropping system

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and of the struggles of the civil rights movement Well

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parallelism You know when an author repeats the same syntax

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or word order creates continuity it's like framing every picture

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on a wall in the same college frame Here the

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author's talking about the story of the blues which encompasses

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a huge range of responses like frustration oppression desperation struggle

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and time periods like radical reconstruction in jim crow south

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and the sharecropping era and civil rights movement Well by

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using parallelism the author shows how the blues was present

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but changing throughout this period Well because the story of

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the blues changes during each time period the author mentions

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like and either it isn't showing history repeating itself So

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get rid of a two more over the information itself

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a straightforward get rid of b and because this passage

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is factual and not something more lyrical like a poem

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while the rhythm is not the highest priority So get

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rid of seek the answer here it's deep I suggest 00:01:24.824 --> [endTime] the diversity and longevity of the genre that's it

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