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AP English Literature and Composition 1.8 Passage Drill 4. What shift is indicated in line 15?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.8 Passage Drill 5. Line 9 is best understood as all of the following except what?
AP® English Literature and Composition Passage Drill 3, Problem 1. Which of the following can be said of the description in lines 5 through 10?
AP English Literature: Beaufort's Weakness 15 Views
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According to the speaker, Beaufort's most significant weakness appears to have been his
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No Okay English lit people We've got a whole long
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another passage for you You can just skim it if
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you want but no extra charge Just dive right in
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According to the speaker Beaufort most significant weakness appears to
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have been is what our mulford while you skimmed it
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So you know Bo right article The narrator tells us
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that it was Beaufort Pride that led him to leave
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his country after losing everything thereby falling into a vicious
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cycle of misfortune See it kind of says it right
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in there He just couldn't bear being a poor man
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in the same place where he was once the bee's
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knees So the answer is B pride as in prejudice
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And when they wrote a lot about that stuff back
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then All right loser bowl Well greed A doesn't seem
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to be his biggest weakness on as if he was
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in a position to indulge in luxury or anything Vanity
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might sound like it could work but usually that weakness
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relates to the actual physical appearance of someone rather than
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just there You know social status poverty D was definitely
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the problem that led him to suffer so much But
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it wasn't the weakness that caused him to feel embarrassed
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by his status and illness and welcomes at the very
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end as a consequence of all the other nastiness not
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because so the answer is B It's pride Oh Beaufort 00:01:32.96 --> [endTime] it goeth before a fall
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