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AP English Literature and Composition 1.8 Passage Drill 2. What is the principle effect of the author's allusions in lines 10-11?
- Product Type / AP English Literature
- English / Audience and Purpose
- Reading Literature / Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material
- Reading Literature / Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material
- Imagery and Figurative Language / Interpreting meanings and effects of figurative language and imagery
- Diction and Syntax / Interpreting significance or effect of word choices
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour... This passage is crying out to be reviewed
- 00:07
again. Hit pause, and see if you can get it to shut up...
- 00:31
What is the principle effect of the author's allusions in lines 7--8?
- 00:36
And here are the potential answers... Well, first of all, we're pretty sure the
- 00:40
author isn't making bunny rabbits appear out of his top hat...
Full Transcript
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...so we're talking about allusions here -- the literary kind... and not illusions, the David
- 00:49
Copperfield kind. Let's take a look at lines 7 through 8:
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"...such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen; as Epimenides
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the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius
- 01:13
of Tyana..." So... what's Bacon's reason for rattling off
- 01:18
all these names?
- 01:20
Does he know these people personally? Is he just name-dropping?
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The first part -- "falsely and feignedly" indicates that the author feels the people
- 01:32
whose names follow claimed to need solitude...
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...but really, they were big softies who, deep down, needed friendship just like the
- 01:40
rest of us. Okay, now which of our answer choices fits
- 01:43
with that idea?
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Well, he's definitely not saying these thinkers felt the same way he did, so A is out...
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...he's not refuting the idea that holy men are the only ones who need solitude, he's
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reinforcing it, so it can't be C...
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...Option D is also pretty much the opposite of what we're looking for...
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...and E won't work because Bacon never claims that nobody needs solitude... don't forget
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those holy men. So B is our answer -- "To show that even respected
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ancient thinkers were false in their claims of the need for solitude."
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Now... be a friend. Numa the Roman could use a hug.
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