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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?
AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 7. What is the principal rhetorical function of paragraphs one to three?
AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill 1, Problem 8. The quotation marks in the third paragraph chiefly serve to what?
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By using the specific imagery in lines 27–29 ("But to say…processes"), the author chiefly suggests that blues music
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Okay Ap england people were singing the blues next question
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by using the specific imagery in lines twenty seven through
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twenty nine The author chiefly suggests that blues music what
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Let's cruise down here is line twenty seven But to
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say that the blues was or is just that skeletal
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outline is like describing a human being using only descriptions
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of dna and genetic processes when reading a simile or
- 00:32
metaphor pay close attention or what's being compared That's skeletal
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outline right there refers to the paragraphs above which tell
- 00:40
a little bit about the history of the blues But
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that's only a tiny part of this passage is story
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The story it actually wants to tell is one of
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blues growing out of african americans cultural experience and out
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of decades of racism and we'll change the paragraphs above
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explained about the body of jazz But while the ensuing
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paragraphs talk about the soul yes this is deep The
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skeleton outline isn't actually referring to the anatomy of african
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americans so get rid of the for the building blocks
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to their genetic code Get rid of a well it's
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true that the blues did create a building block for
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multiple genres Get rid of b and can hit right
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in the soul of african americans right Get rid of
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declines twenty seven through twenty nine are not discussing those
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facts specifically So the answer here it see it consists
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of far more than a brief historical period right It's 00:01:25.708 --> [endTime] something connected to the soul baby
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