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AP English Language and Composition 3.5 Passage Drill. How is "forcible" being used here?
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- 00:00
Sorry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by forcible language Oh sorry we met forcible language Well
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sorry about that but your phone's back in there you
- 00:14
go all right We're skimming or keep skimming Huxley schmucks
- 00:17
Lee huxley Okay well we're just going to say we're
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- 00:22
done skimming let's go alright The speaker uses the phrase
- 00:26
in language more forcible in line forty three so what
- 00:30
does he mean by forcible here all right near the
- 00:32
potential answers especially aggressively let's rolling The trick with this
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one is re reading the little paragraph from which this
- 00:43
quote is taken So the author is saying that professor
- 00:45
huxley's words are awesome and it huxley says that all
- 00:48
better than the author can Well maybe he should have
- 00:50
let hustler write this essay We'll start by kicking choice
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d to the curb Thie author isn't being critical of
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huck say at all He loves the hugs he's probably
- 00:59
at home and a t shirt with his face on
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them It will be misses The mark to the author
- 01:06
isn't being cautious about admitting his love for professor huxley
- 01:10
If they had skywriting back in the day he would
- 01:12
have written i heart huxley in sky just like that
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choi si is one of those sneaky answers that deliberately
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tries to trick us Quote does use the word forcible
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which lives in the same world is the word aggressively
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And what a pleasant world that must be Thing is
- 01:29
we're trying to find a word that describes how the
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author feels about the professor's forcible language We're not interested
- 01:35
in how the professor himself was speaking While we're at
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it we can cross out option e for pretty much
- 01:41
the same reason Brazenly describe something that's done poor actually
- 01:46
or boldly like if you went to your aunt mabel
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and finally told her exactly what you think of that
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sergeant casserole she forced you to eat is an innocent
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child This might describe how the professor talks about science
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but it doesn't describe how the author talks about the
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perf officer Talking about science Option is the only one
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that gets it The author really admires professor huxley so
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much so that he quotes the huck's for two whole
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paragraphs Or maybe this writer just needed a little break
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