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AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 4. The ongoing emphasis on vegetation and nature in the poem classifies it as which of the following styles?
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The ongoing emphasis on vegetation and nature in the poem classifies it as which of the
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following styles?
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And here are the potential answers...
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Okay, so... the author doesn't come right out and tell us about his personal dietary
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habits, but we have a feeling he downs his fair share of soy patties and wheatgrass shakes.
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It's all "leaf-fringed" this and "trodden weed" that. This guy definitely has Mother
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Nature on the mind.
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This question wants to know... how does this emphasis on all things veggie...classify the poem?
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We've heard of poetic feet... but apparently this one also has a green thumb...
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Well, it really just comes down to vocab.
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We can probably eliminate C -- Environmental... because it seems like a bit of a decoy answer.
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Yes, when one talks about nature they're talking about our environment... but is that really
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a style of poetry? Nah -- scratch it.
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We can also skip D -- we KNOW this poem is an ode because it's right in the title...
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but does an ode necessarily have anything to do with nature?
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Nope. Moving on.
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E is a no-go as well. A "lyric" poem is just another type, like an "ode," and has nothing
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to do with nature.
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If we weren't sure, we could think about songs that people refer to as "lyrical"... it has
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more to do with a piece's meter and rhythm than with its content...
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So we're down to either A "Idyllic," or B "Pastoral."
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Both mean roughly the same thing... and here's where we have to fall back on our knowledge
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of terminology.
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The technical, official term for a poetry centering on nature is "pastoral."
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So B it is.
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As in, "Buckwheat tofu muffins."
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