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AP® English Language and Composition: Purpose, Rhetoric, Style, and Organization Drill 1, Problem 1. The speaker cites all of the following as ben...
AP English Language and Composition 3.10 Passage Drill. Which of the following devices does the passage not include?
In lines 33–34, the author writes that "ambition would induce them to aspire to office, and commands and honors, to form cabals against their com...
AP English Language: The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nothing But The Truth 6 Views
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All of the following are true of this passage EXCEPT
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Okay Ap england people here we go Next question All
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of the following are true of this passage except what
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Well what's most noticeable is that there doesn't seem to
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be anyone Thesis statement In fact the whole first paragraph
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well kind of is the thesis right Let's think about
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this Overall there's a nice tight structure to this passage
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It's about the history and not the art of fashion
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So get rid of sea right off the bat It's
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organized chronologically Get rid of be in it does a
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great job of looking at all sorts of different groups
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in america So get rid of e checking off everything
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on this list Well we noticed something odd The passage
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doesn't have a conclusion so we're going to get rid
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of a it seems toe end in the nineties with
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really no conclusive statement It all really That's ok Maybe
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the exam writer just didn't include the conclusion There's no
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way we could get away with that in an essay
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section about playing cool if it does happen on the
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test Right So the answer here is d The thesis
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is presented in the first paragraph Yeah that's except part 00:01:05.933 --> [endTime] So that's it
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