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Sorry And here's your shmoop too sure brought to you

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by the liars The musical instrument Not these two guys

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with a white van in the fake rolexes They really

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did look genuine though Take a look at the passage

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along one even skim it Just skim it Look ropey

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word here a word there Here a little there A

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little here A little You were all right The rhetorical

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function of the alien liar in paragraph two Beginning line

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twenty is tio What and hear potential answers are the

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rhetorical function Sounds like an oxymoron All right is the

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rhetorical function of the lyre To describe how impressions excite

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human behavior Well there's nothing in the text about the

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liar representing human endeavor So we can rule this one

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out right away People are not like the heart because

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the heart is subject to every gust of wind While

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people can adjust to the wind as it changes let's

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look at sea Does the liar portray how the senses

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combined for harmonious effect Well this is a nice idea

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There's also no mention of the harmonious nous of the

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senses in the text So this is another easy one

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to rule out is the liar Analogy suggests that artist

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tune themselves to their surroundings Well if you look back

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and be we know that tuning toe one surroundings is

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what separates all humans from liars not just artists If

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all people doing to their surroundings and there's nothing unique

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about artists in this context and we can rule out

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deep by mentioning the liar Does the author imply that

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imagination worth with nature to produce art well on the

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superhero team of imagination and art are teaming up to

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fight dullness Sounds pretty cool again We have an answer

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here that is not mentioned in the text This connection

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is never made for us so we don't have to

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consider it when deciding what the correct answer is Our

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only remaining option is a so let's hope It's the

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right one Let's look at ambrose bierce is the devil's

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dictionary published in nineteen o six Because it's hard to

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find any more recent mentions of liars in this satirical

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dictionary beers to find the lyre as an ancient instrument

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of torture the word is now used in a figurative

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sense to denote poetic faculty Well bierce is clearly a

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man After shelley's own heart denoting the poetic faculty or

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talking about poetry for those of you who live in

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the twenty first century is exactly what the essay is

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getting It that's Why option a depicts how various experiences

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act on the mind is the correct choice When the

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author says that man is an instrument over which a

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siri's of external and internal impressions or driven he is

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not saying that people are literally instruments Instead he's talking

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about how experiences affect the mind and how the mind

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reacts to those experiences And as we figured out earlier

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humans differ from the liar in this simile because they

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can produce harmony and make adjustments to the wind On

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the fly is our final answer Good work everyone rock 00:02:34.243 --> [endTime] on

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