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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 7. The primary purpose of this passage is what?
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literary devices like our toaster that can't get enough Joyce
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Yeah i got three Listen Stately pumped stately plump but
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mulligan gang I'm reading shakespeare handle policy You know jake
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Okay yeah we're done Which device does the speaker employ
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most And here the potential answers Understatement alliteration Metaphor huh
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All right Well we need a strong grasp on the
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whole passage for this one way Don't have one It
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might be a good idea to skim through the past
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again with all these options in mind and do it
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quickly because these test time yet option d thinks the
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speaker is being ironic the whole time Like alanis morissette
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number isn't it I want it And you can use
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the word wrong so don't follow her lead anyway If
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that were so the speaker would be saying the opposite
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of what he means to make the point and ironic
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speech is sort of a wink wink nudge nudge situation
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like a black fly in your chardonnay As faras we
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can tell the speaker is saying exactly what he means
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We declare this speech irony free answer b says that
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speaker uses a lot of a literary ation or words
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that begin with the same constant sound If this were
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true the speaker's speech might sound like this The quota
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of questions makes me quiver quack and quake willie Luckily
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the speech sounds nothing like that We're gonna have to
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say no it a choice A speaker doesn't seem all
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that in tow Understatement Where does he purposely downplay anything
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We'll know where that we can see if anything he's
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an exaggeration feet he claims the speaker is sweet on
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similes but the speaker doesn't use many besides the facebook
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status worthy similarly about the violin If you want to
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make that quote your facebook status well we won't judge
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options He gets it right all sorts of tricks or
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pulled out of the hat But metaphor is the speaker's
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favorite For example the whole immortality sunrise infancy bid is
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a metaphor with a capital m And as we all
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know capitalized metaphors are way better than the ones in 00:02:09.38 --> [endTime] lower case
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