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No All right AP English People Next question for you

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The rhetorical questions used in Line seven through ten What

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What do they do Art Let's go back to torque

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aligns here seventeen and beauties or morals or both in

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here Seven Here we go in Tempe or the Dales

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of Arkady What men or gods air these What maidens

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Law What mad pursuit What struggle to escape What pipes

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and timber Lt's what wild next to see Someone clearly

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scored a touchdown there and that's how you speak when

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you were describing it If you were a football and

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all right so here Correct Answer it's B for shadow

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the rest of the poem right And that's what a

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creepy voice there you get for nothing extra Remember this

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is an ode to a Grecian urn Turn The author

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is literally addressing his poem Toe a pot which Greeks

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used to record their history They really did We're not

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making this up The phrase leaf fringed legend right there

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refers to the Urns story which was bordered with leaves

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Therefore when the author rhetorically asked about the eighties and

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the maidens and the mad pursuit he's teasing the reader

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with juicy details of what's to come right So party

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down party time All right so it's be the loser

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bowl Well since the poems subject is a pot and

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you know what they used to do with pots back

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then it's hard to question its credibility So that's a

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bit of that If the rhetorical questions were country victory

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are these gods or are they men or are they

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NFL mascots Yeah then they could offer alternative viewpoints so

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they don't get to see or suggest doubt So get

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rid of the and then finally the author never mentions

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what the popular opinion is like Where did that come

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from So get rid of that's it It's b were 00:01:49.77 --> [endTime] foreshadowing more questions to come on this I'm sorry

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