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AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 2. What literary device characterizes lines 18 through 23?
- English / Imagery and Figurative Language
- Product Type / AP English Literature
- Media Literacy / Audience-specific Changes in Tone
- Conventions / Apply knowledge of language to make effective choices for meaning or style
- Conventions / Apply knowledge of language to make effective choices for meaning or style
- Conventions / Apply knowledge of language to make effective choices for meaning or style
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You can't handle the shmoop... It's pause and review time. Your favorite
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time other than lunch.
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What literary device characterizes lines 14 through 17? And here are the potential answers...
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Okay, this one doesn't involve a ton of interpretation or comprehension...
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...it's more of a vocab question. Either we know what these five things are or we don't.
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And if we don't... then it's time to cross our fingers, say a prayer -- if that's our
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thing -- and take a big ol' guess. All right, first things first. What do lines
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14 through 17 say?
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"But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to
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want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense
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also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship,
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he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity." First of all, we don't recommend taketh-ing
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anything from beasts.
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Just... let them do their thing. You don't want to lose a limb unnecessarily.
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Now... what is the author doing in this segment of the passage?
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Is he using a simile? Nope. No occurrences of the words "like" or "as," which would have
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been a dead giveaway.
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Alliteration? Alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words... and
- 01:44
it definitely appears that we have that here.
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"Mere and miserable." "Without which the world is but a wilderness." "Sense of solitude."
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We'd bet a barrel of badgers that B is our boy, but let's be... buh-thorough...
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Is there a Maxim here? Not unless there's a copy of the latest issue on the nightstand.
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Nah, C isn't it.
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An anecdote? Well, an anecdote would be a little story... and if this is a story than
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it is pretty short on plot. Nope, let's cross off D.
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Assonance? Close to alliteration... but where the sounds occur in the middle of words. So
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we can get rid of this one as well.
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B it is. Boy, oh boy!
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