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AP English Language and Composition 9.2 Passage Drill. Which of the following rhetorical strategies does the author employ?

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What rhetorical strategy does the author adopt in lines 15–21 ("But a nation…opulent amusements")?


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All right next up What rhetorical strategy does the author

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adopt in lines fifteen through twenty one No science Let's

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cruise of fifteen There we go But a nation that

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had long viewed itself an idyllic terms the nation of

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small farmers and craftsmen confront the emergence of a sighting

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christening divide between the haves and have nots Exciting which

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many poor words drove this to survive An emerging industrial

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and financial aristocracy lived in palatial homes Indulge a noblet

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millionaire right It isn't all glitz and glamour for america

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During this time even though the economy grew at an

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extraordinary rate generating unprecedented levels of wealth the new prosperity

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came at a cost In these lines the author reveals

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how it changed america's identity and started to make more

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rigid class distinctions And we're not talking about the difference

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between biology One in biology to the author relies on

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the conventional meaning of idyllic which is how americans then

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viewed themselves not necessarily how she would view them So

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get rid of b She does use the word opulent

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to describe the well the's amusements But there's no strong

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indication that she did proves just more like a fact

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So get rid of sea Nor is there evidence that

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she has contempt for small farmers So get rid of

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the overall her tone is more like a journalistic reporting

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of facts than any editorializing So get rid of e

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the right answer here Yeah it's a she reveals a 00:01:17.554 --> [endTime] complexity to the argument

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