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AP English Literature: Inferring About the Luggnaggians
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AP English Literature: Inexpressible Adjectives
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AP English Literature: Development in Poetry 3 Views


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Which of the following best describes the development of the poem?


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No Okay AP angle it people Next question for you

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big fat home which is going to kind of cruise

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through it here and looking and just kind of winking

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at it first Which of the following best describes the

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development of the poem The development is a speculum objective

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mysterious imaginative frightening too All these things I don't think

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about it There are a few choices here to look

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good but the poems initial intrigue that grows whimsical is

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definitely the best choice Whimsical the little pun at the

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very end that includes this sunrise Leaving the door ajar

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tells us the speaker's playing with the poems setting She's

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also playing with our emotions as she turns the poems

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mystery into a kind of harmless wordplay So the answer

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is C goes from mysterious Teo Well amusing Yeah alright

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Loser bowl Well there's nothing deductive in the poems conclusion

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The entire thing was framed as a hypothetical the kind

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of situation So get rid of a poem Can't sound

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too subjective either because little Speaker has an a knish

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in point of view right They know everything Get rid

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of B and likewise There's nothing particularly realistic about the

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poem because well we see a whole lot of objects

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thinking and talking a kind of you know Dickinson does

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Disney Effect So get rid of D and then frightening

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to Placid is inaccurate because well we're never holding tight

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to our blankets are calmly dismissing the old folks So

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get rid of Adm first See hear mysterious amusing good 00:01:28.73 --> [endTime] for me thin for life

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