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AP English Language and Composition 10.4 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 10.4 Passage Drill. What is the author's strategy in paragraph 6?

AP English Language and Composition 9.9 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 9.9 Passage Drill. What rhetorical strategy does the author use with this expression?

AP English Language and Composition 9.2 Passage Drill
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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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AP English Language: Identifying Figures Of Speech 10 Views


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Lines 65–67 ("In the purely…motor oil") contain examples of


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Okay A couple of lines for you here sixty five

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to sixty seven contain examples of what So let's go

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mumble in a purely feminine aquifers of sorority life one

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of her biographers wrote The eternally tomboys leave flowed like

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a drop of motor oil So there's a great example

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of metaphor instantly poor little harper lee floating around like

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an isolated oil bubble in the water climbing trees and

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smashing baseball's while her sorority sisters painted their toenails pink

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and you know had tea parties with pinky up Use

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of imagery like that in a comparison is a metaphor

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when the writer says x is why and a simile

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when the writer says is like why Well an illusion

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in a reference to some outside book song story or

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whatever else and cynic dicky is when a part of

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something is used to represent the whole like calling a

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car wheels or calling a whole portion of an orchestra

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Strings eh Repetition is well repetition Muthana me literally means

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substitute name like when a statement from the president has

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called a statement from the white house all right to

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get rid of the understatement like repetition is just what

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it sounds like Understanding something in order to make a

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point And ana ma tapia's award for a sound that

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sounds like the sound like boo hiss bang out and

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finally parallel syntax is one Multiple sentences or clauses are

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structure the same way and dennett tae shin or d

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notation is the opposite of a lot of these other

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terms and that it means using a word in its

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strictest literal sense like he would have you do to 00:01:31.824 --> [endTime] the right answer here it's eats metaphor and simile

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