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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 4. Lines 32-34 are best understood to mean what?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 5. Which line indicates the turn or shift in this poem?
According to the information presented in the first and second paragraph (lines 1-26), it can be reasonably inferred that the kingdom of the Luggna...
AP English Literature: An Upright Mind 7 Views
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An "upright mind" (lines 57) is best interpreted to mean
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No Okay Next AP English people Here we go An
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upright mind in line fifty seven right there is best
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interpreted to mean what All right fifty seven Let's just
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cruise up here and read it on And there was
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a sense of justice in my father's upright mind which
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rendered it necessary that he should approve highly to love
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strongly interesting Well let's think about it The speaker's dad
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perhaps learned his lesson after it not so great relationship
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and decided that any future lover would have to be
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close to perfect in terms of her values and behavior
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Well it's safe to say then that the bar was
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set pretty high for Caroline in terms of what she'd
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have to prove to him In order for him to
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love strongly she needed to meet his high expectations and
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values to even stand a chance So the answer here
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it's beat expectations and values Nice and their loser bowl
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well The speaker's dad did have high expectations They weren't
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grossly unrealistic And interpreting an upright mind as optimistic is
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taking the language a little too literally there So get
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rid of the sea If the mind is upright it
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wouldn't be accurate to describe it as resistant to change
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and innovation Say right there So get rid of deep
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or easily disappointed and underwhelmed Get rid of E right
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there and because the negative connotations behind the phrases So
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that's it It's a one that has set expectations and
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values nice and high for their kids I did
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