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PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?
PSAT 2.1 Reading Diagnostic. President Kennedy refers to the United Nations in the first paragraph primarily to...what?
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PSAT 2.4 Reading Diagnostic. In paragraph 12, the phrase "twilight struggle" most nearly means...what?
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up operation in your hand Trump can we forge Elaine
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long history works so much All right In paragraph twelve
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the phrase twilight struggle most nearly means what And here
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in potential answers twilight zone like all righty so kennedy's
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giving his inaugural address And he uses the phrase twilight
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struggle probably not in reference to the twilight of one's
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life Although struggle to make two bathroom on time can
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be a serious thing So if not that then what
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what's the press talking about here let's Look over the
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full sentence for his peers in now the trumpet summons
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us again God is a call to bear arms though
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arms we need not as a call to battle though
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embattled we are but a call to bear the burden
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of a long twilight struggle You're in and you're out
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rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation a struggle against the
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common enemies of man tyranny poverty disease and war itself
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All right well does twilight struggle refer to a a
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dishonorable fight Well he's talking about the fight to end
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tyranny poverty disease and war itself Oh yeah Rial Dishonorable
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An example of a dishonorable Fight would be two guys
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going at each other and denny's over whose breakfast scramble
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is the handiest it's Not one you're going to brag
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about to the grand kiddies What about being a midnight
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showdown Well sounds like what john wayne would been gained
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in if he'd been more of an owl In short
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no this is taking things way too literally he's using
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twilight in a metaphorical sense So yeah metaphors sometimes even
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sneak their way into political The beach is there everywhere
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Ok then see an ideological disagreement Well the standoff between
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the us and the soviet union was far more than
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just an ideological or philosophical difference of opinions Otherwise the
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two countries might have only been threatening to unleash harsh
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insults rather than nuclear bombs Talk about a cold war
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All that's left is option d and under recognized tribulation
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Well it helps if we know what a tribulation is
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Its any sort of ordeal by the way But even
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if we're not sure we should be able to guess
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roughly and its meaning Pentiti is asking citizens to carry
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the burden of a long unrecognized fight he's saying that
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reconciliation won't happen overnight but it's on each of us
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to do our part to keep the peace until it
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does In fact happen We're not sure how well this
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sort of poetic flowery speech would go over In today's
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world Bunch people would probably just take his words at
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face value and show up the twilight Armed and ready 00:02:52.843 --> [endTime] to fight They brought their night vision goggles
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