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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 4. Lines 32-34 are best understood to mean what?
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Lines 15-19 ("The brook…in fear perhaps") are best interpreted to mean that
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Sorry Okay Making nice progress here Next question Lines fifteen
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through nineteen Let's just skim and real quick There they
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are the Brook Yeti out of fear Perhaps that's a
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section our best interpreted to mean What What do those
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lines mean Well not a good sign when you read
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something then you have three or what it means Well
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the Brook is incapable of feeling fear because well it's
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a Brooke people It's ah thing of water It's only
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choice is to submit to its current circumstances Uh no
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matter how dark they may appear to be like life
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is in danger by forgetting to go in fear that
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Brooke is merely acting according to its nature Unlike people
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who have the choice Teo you know go in fear
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if they're thrown in a dungeon or walled off in
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concrete or stuck in front of reality TV perpetually or
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you know whatever So the answer is B The brook
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fears nothing and must submit to its new circumstances and
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the loser ball well by saying the brook was thrown
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deep in a sewer dungeon the author's saying that it
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ended up in that fetid place against its will Like
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who would purposely go to a sewer other than a
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rat By describing the new location of the brook with
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such awful words like fetid darkness will the author's highlighting
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the unfairness of the situation and suggesting that the Brook
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will not last long You know despite its immortal for
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So get rid of all those right answer here is 00:01:19.86 --> [endTime] B is in Brooke and ah very sad
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