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Which rhetorical strategy does the author adopt in lines 17–23 ("We desire…of nations")?
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All right Next question in this british art journal question
- 00:08
thinking here we go Which rhetorical strategy does the author
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adopt in line seventeen through twenty three We desire to
- 00:19
find by what rules some art is called good and
- 00:22
other art bad We desire to fund in conditions of
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character in the artist which are essentially connected with the
- 00:27
goodness of his work We desire to find what of
- 00:30
the methods of practice which formed this character or corrupted
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and finally how the formation of corruption of this character
- 00:36
is connected with the general prosperity of nations So let's
- 00:40
think about it Parallel construction is when the author repeats
- 00:43
the same elements says the same element again and again
- 00:46
and again eh lamenting element ng l lamenting in multiple
- 00:49
sentences Right Well here it's all about the wee desire
- 00:53
to find right there subject verb combo which comes up
- 00:56
three sentences in a row We desire to find by
- 00:58
what rules we desire to find the conditions we desire
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to find What are the methods Well because all the
- 01:05
senses have a subject and verb they're complete sentences So
- 01:08
get rid of a The author doesn't use extreme exaggerations
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There's no hyperbole Get rid of See the sentences have
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only one klaus Not many clauses which would qualify them
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as sarah taxis and the same sound isn't repeated So
- 01:21
there's no obliteration either like getting rid of e And
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dr seuss would have hated this passage so hard Yeah
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no obliteration there So the answer is beats all about
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parallel construction Right We're repeating things again Again again again 00:01:33.883 --> [endTime] again
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