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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 4. Lines 32-34 are best understood to mean what?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 5. Which line indicates the turn or shift in this poem?
According to the information presented in the first and second paragraph (lines 1-26), it can be reasonably inferred that the kingdom of the Luggna...
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The image of the farm house "with the new city street it has to wear a number in" (lines 2-3) serves to
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- 00:00
Sorry OK people Next question on this fun little poem
- 00:07
here uplifting one The image of the farmhouse with the
- 00:18
new city street It has to wear a number in
- 00:22
grammar Police being alerted here Lines two and three there
- 00:24
serves to do what What does it do Why Why
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- 00:27
is it there Good Well the farm house used to
- 00:33
hang out by itself you know out on the prairie
- 00:35
chillin with that awesome brook Then the city rolled in
- 00:38
with its fancy pants bars and restaurants and addresses As
- 00:42
a result Farmhouse was forced to wear a number meaning
- 00:46
it had to be integrated into the new World Order
- 00:48
of the big city So it's a imply a sense
- 00:51
of the past being forced to assimilate into more modern
- 00:54
circumstance That's the right answer The wrong ones Well the
- 00:57
farmhouses personified in the idea of wearing a number like
- 01:01
a person would wear clothes But that number is a
- 01:03
bigger symbol of integration Because the new order results in
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the beloved Brooks destruction wealth the speaker isn't commenting on
- 01:11
it at all The farm can continue lingering but only
- 01:14
if it submits to the city's evil difficult overbearing ways
- 01:19
where it sticks out because of its rural simplicity So 00:01:22.09 --> [endTime] it's not either that's it
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