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Description:
The phrase "it is that which tieth the knot" (line 45) is best understood as
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Sorry Okay AP English people last one of this section
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for these paragraphs that we've beaten to death Question the
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phrase it is that which Tyus the not online forty
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five Let's look at it right there is best understood
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as what What Use that phrase Well The author really
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- 00:33
likes the Roman name for friends participate a cure a
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rum or shares in care and uses the metaphor of
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a not to show how close friends become a few
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lines letter He invokes this image again when he says
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that Prince is often times joined to themselves some of
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their servants Yeah line forty eight right there It's what
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it said meaning they be friend Their servants kind of
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like tying the knot but without you know tiered wedding
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cakes So the answer is a It's a metaphor for
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the friendship between princes and servants Well even though and
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not can have negative connotations My grandmother's and have been
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working on the same not her shoe lace for three
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days Now it's not getting any better The author isn't
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using it to show how complicated or permanent friends can
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be So get rid of E and B and there
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is no absolution to a Roman friendship Get rid of
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C and the point of this whole paragraph is that
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princes sacrificed their superiority to become equals with their servants
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So get rid of me there Yeah does it Answers 00:01:33.01 --> [endTime] is in Well we're all done what
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