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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...
AP English Literature: Making a Heroine 4 Views
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The narrator supports the assertion she makes in lines 1-3 primarily through
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No Okay Next up AP English Lit people Here we
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go The narrator supports the assertion she makes in lines
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one into primarily through what I have no choices metaphors
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illusions hyperbolic statements juxtaposition in percent of kids Alright let's
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skim back the lines one and two way up here
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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her
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infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroin
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You can tell this is written in British Americans All
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right well let's think about it Throughout passage the narrator
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make statements about Catherine Moreland's family personality and you know
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inclinations which she immediately contrast with those of a heroine
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The author states that everything was against her in line
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five Right there We're not making this up And the
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rest of the first three paragraphs well they serve as
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a list of reasons why no one would have supposed
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her born to be an heroine So the answer here
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it's deep juxtaposition of Catherine Morland qualities with those of
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a heroine Got it Okay well loser bowl No metaphors
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Compare Catherine Morland to a heroine because while she's distinctly
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unlike a heroin so get rid of egg there's no
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personification of her qualities as heroin like because they're not
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heroin like in the first place Just kind of normal
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gals get rid of it The allusions to poetry or
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used to illustrate Katherine's own attempts to be a heroine
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was we say not and but they don't support the
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point made in her first two sentences So get rid
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of B If anything narrator understates Katherine's abilities calling her
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occasionally stupid in line thirty five So we just get
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rid of that in a duck with a left hook
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that's coming in our heads So that's it The answer 00:02:19.118 --> [endTime] is D is in dog
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