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AP English Literature: Inferring About the Luggnaggians
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AP English Literature: Inexpressible Adjectives
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In line 27, the adjective "inexpressible" is used

AP English Literature: Restating the Main Idea
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The main idea of the second paragraph (lines 24-33) can best be restated that

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AP English Literature: The Tone of Death 4 Views


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The speaker's voice can be best described as


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Sorry Okay Next up question will just get right to

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it because we've beaten this poem to death The speaker's

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voice can be best described as what Well When a

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speaker starts a poem with love being dead it's most

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likely going to be a direct train to Sad Town

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which is the case here Throughout the passage of the

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speaker mentions the dying flowers the cold and grey autumn

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twilight and the sad and low few chords all of

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which give the piece a solemn and forlorn feeling like

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a church organ there at a funeral So see Solomon

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forlorn that the tone while loser ball resilient and empowered

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like an Oprah revival A is not applicable because the

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speaker never affirms her strength On the contrary she seems

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pretty crushed is if she can't focus on anything but

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singing Sad song So be there Stevie Nicks In the

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later Eric peaceful and resigned like D A while might

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seem pretty close but the speaker isn't really at peace

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here She's resigned to a life without love or joy

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which doesn't sound too peaceful Tow us She's also not

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too hopeful Get rid E if she believes that love

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is now totally dead Yeah she really is going to

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get a lot of swipe writes on tinder so that's

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it See a U

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