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AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 3. To what is war being compared in line 2?
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour...
- 00:05
Maybe this passage changed since the last time you read it.
- 00:08
Better pause and review to make sure...
- 00:37
To what is war being compared in line 2?
- 00:41
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:49
We already know that war is good for absolutely nothing... thanks, Edwin Starr...
- 00:53
...but what is it being compared to here?
- 00:55
Let's familiarize ourselves with line 2:
- 00:57
"...war rolled swiftly up the beach and washed the sands where Princeton played..."
- 01:02
Which is why you should never go to the beach at high tide. You never know when you're going
- 01:06
to wind up with a bucketful of war in your swim trunks.
- 01:09
Well... what would "roll swiftly up the beach" and "wash the sand?"
- 01:15
Water, right? Well... some combination of water, plastic bottles and aluminum cans, anyway...
- 01:21
Which leaves us with A -- "the ocean" and E -- "the lake."
- 01:25
The lake would make sense... but we're given the location of Princeton, New Jersey...
- 01:29
and we know there's a New Jersey shore.
- 01:34
In that case, the ocean is a much safer bet. So A is the best choice.
- 01:38
Snooki says so.
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