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The quotation from Shakespeare in lines 108–109 contains a


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No Okay Next up for AP England The quotation from

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Shakespeare in lines hundred fifteen hundred seventeen contains a what

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And that a young woman in love always looks like

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patience on a monument smiling at grief The simile found

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originally in twelfth night compares a young woman in love

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to an abstract idea personified in a monument or sculpture

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The use of the capital letter for patients gives it

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away even if we hadn't a clue to what Twelfth

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night Wass And like what was wrong with the eleventh

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night of the tenth one Well nothing sounds more romantic

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than personifying an abstract idea in sculpture Right Take that

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flowers and chocolate Yeah We're going to give you one

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naked David There All right So the answer here is

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be similarly comparing a young woman to an abstract idea

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and the loser brawl wells pretty easy The line alludes

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on ly to a young woman in love not a

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heroine and does not compare the young woman to the

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statue itself Be a metaphor Doesn't use like or as

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so you can just get rid of a CNI right

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off the bat And that's it just leaves you be

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on that little simile there smiling Yeah Go for it 00:01:20.43 --> [endTime] David

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