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AP English Language and Composition 9.9 Passage Drill. What rhetorical strategy does the author use with this expression?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your smoke du jour

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brought to you by argument an important evolutionary trade that

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separates humans from animals My how far we've come and

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take a look following passage and just skimming skimming fast

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We're just going to skim it to many words You

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got paid by the word in those days and they

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wrote a lot of all right here we go What

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rhetorical strategy does the author use with the expression Not

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that i assert poets to be profits in the gross

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sense of the word or that they can foretells the

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form as surely as they for no the spirit of

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events And here are potential answers Definitely did not write

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that paragraph We get the fired and shot we're doing

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ok Here we go Well is the author transitioning from

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a positive to a negative Will The use of the

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word not would seem to suggest a negative But if

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the author was transitioning from a positive to a negative

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the quote would be more well negative maybe not that

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negative The author seems to be talking here about what

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poetry is not But if we read on such is

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the pretense of superstition which would make poetry and attribute

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of prophecy rather than prophecy and attribute of poetry such

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a way with words we see Ultimately he wrote this

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sense to make sure the reader understands that prophecy is

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an attribute of poetry and not the other way around

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We'll cross out a but remain positive Of course you'll

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get him next time eh Is the author toning down

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the rhetoric with a concession This is another answer we

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can rule out because a concession would mean the writer

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was conceding a point or admitting that someone who disagrees

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with him might be right about something There's no concession

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here The author is telling us something he doesn't want

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us to think he thinks and then reiterating something he

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wants us to think He thinks We think we'll concede

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The answer is nazi And maybe bring some of that

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popcorn over here please All right Is the author setting

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up a new argument Well in the previous sentence the

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author says that a poet beholds the future in the

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present And in this sense he discusses the relationship between

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poetry and prophecy Well if you already mentioned the concept

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below then this is not a new argument so let's

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cross out d and we'll leave these two the sort

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things out is the author stating the obvious to a

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buttress and argument partner french there If you buttress an

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argument it means you provide support for an argument the

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way a stone or brick buttress provides support for a

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building or wall The author may be supporting his argument

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here but he's not necessarily stating the obvious unless it

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was obvious to you already So we'll rule out he

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is well we've come a long way buttress assured We're

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almost there if we go back to be it makes

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a whole lot more sense that the author is clarifying

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encountering a possible objection when he writes not that i

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assert he is basically saying before i tell you what

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i'm saying let me tell you what i'm not saying

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This method makes it harder for an opponent to refute

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argument because the opposition's point has already been made The

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other is anticipating that the reader may be skeptical of

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what he's saying and he is cutting the reader off

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the past We have our answer and now we know

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how to argue with ourselves Just another step in our 00:02:50.12 --> [endTime] evolution Oh so many steps yet to go

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