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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 4. Lines 32-34 are best understood to mean what?
In line 27, the adjective "inexpressible" is used
The list in lines 28-30, ("you make take sarza for the liver…castoreum for the brain") chiefly serves to
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In line 27, the adjective "inexpressible" is used
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No Okay Let's just get to it in line twenty
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seven The adjective inexpressible right there That's flying twenty seven
- 00:13
is used How That's fine Here in line twenty seven
- 00:17
I freely own myself to have been struck with inexpressible
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delight upon hearing this count together Okay Well let's think
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- 00:30
about this the author says His delight is inexpressible but
- 00:34
somehow he's able to express it right He breaks out
- 00:37
into expressions that are a little too extravagance e right
- 00:41
there meaning that his delight is in fact express a
- 00:44
ble So by using inexpressible signify the opposite of its
- 00:48
meaning The author is using irony So the answer here
- 00:51
is B and the Loser bowl Well it's true that
- 00:54
the adjective is metaphorical in the sense that it's not
- 00:56
literal So yeah metaphorical not the right answer Here however
- 01:00
as the narrator says later he does express his delight
- 01:03
His delight ends up being a little too extravagant meaning
- 01:06
that inexpressible was used to mean the opposite of its
- 01:10
usual meetings So you gotta pay attention for the subtleties
- 01:13
Therefore metaphoric isn't strong enough to describe the narrator's intentions
- 01:18
Likewise they didn't use the word incorrectly so get rid
- 01:20
of See the irony highlights how delighted he actually Waas
- 01:25
so inexpressible describes his enthusiasm But it isn't used enthusiastically
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as Indy Nor is his delight regretful de So get
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rid of it So yeah that's it Ironically the answer
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is B is in
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