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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
AP English Literature: Literary Devices in Poetry 23 Views
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The speaker uses which literary device to contrast Spring with Autumn in the second stanza?
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Sorry Okay AP English People still on this poem loves
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drawing this death blah blah blah Shmoop The speaker uses
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which literary device to contrast spring with autumn in the
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second stands are the second one down here That's the
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second stanza Well let's think Boy do we love us
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Some good juxtaposition here It's just a fun word to
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say Juxtaposition juxtaposition Jackson Syria Good times how we do
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things that shmoop anyway The speaker uses that device of
- 00:35
putting two opposite side by side in the same stanza
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to accent They're different Spring is the opposite of autumn
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just like love is the opposite of death So the
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answer here is E J Position Yeah Loser bowl While
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oxymoron that might have worked if the speaker managed to
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somehow lump spring and autumn into the same word or
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phrase like jumbo shrimp But she didn't write That's the
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ultimate oxymoron Jumbo shrimp hyperbole C is a gross exaggeration
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which spring and autumn are not and contrasting Spring and
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autumn is not the opposite of what's intended or expected
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So get rid of deep figurative language like a partially
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true But it's too much of an umbrella term to
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give the desired specifics and in these kind of questions
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always go with the most Pacific thing so that's e 00:01:22.06 --> [endTime] juxtaposition That's it We're done
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