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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 4.1 Summary. The overall purpose of this passage is probably...what?


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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by rhyme scheme it's not when a

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group of poets plot to commit a crime different or

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maybe that's what they want us to think But we

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want to collaborate right All right check out the following

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passage images Um say that three times fast you just

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emotionalism therapy in the rooms That's more like flying All

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right Overall purpose of this passengers probably tio what And

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here the potential answers stressing no well poems can be

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tricky to decipher Lucky for us we're dealing with a

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passage about poetry and not a poem itself So let's

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get to it What's the purpose of this passage washington

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he's the first to go while the passage does point

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out several ways images and was different from other poetry

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there's nothing in the passage to argue that it was

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superior Just being different doesn't make something better Just consider

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britney spears post come back She did it again She

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had that option A isn't completely wrong but it's not

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quite what we're looking for images and did favorite equality

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between women and men But this is more of a

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supporting detail It's on ly mentioned briefly so it's not

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enough to be the main idea it's more of a

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beam that supports the house and the house itself it's

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the same deal with option d The pastor does include

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a list of significant writers but this is supporting information

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not the paragraph mane purpose Instead the paragraph repeatedly cites

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ways the images movement was different from other poetry movement

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So option b is the best choice the main point

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of the passengers to compare and contrast or in other

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words this thing is different from this other thing Next

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up freeform modernist beat poetry because nothing's cooler than wearing 00:01:54.373 --> [endTime] a black leotardo snapping

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