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AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 5. According to lines 5 and 6, "much pleasure" derives from what?
In lines 7-10 ("His helmet now...his alms"), the narrator draws attention to
AP English Literature: Understanding the Use of Baronet 2 Views
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The phrase "not even a baronet" (lines 133) is best understood as
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No Okay Next up AP English lit people The phrase
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not even a barren ET online thirty seven right There
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is best understood as what All right Well let's think
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about it The argument the speaker's been making starts to
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unravel in this paragraph and well her sarcasm just starts
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to become more obvious It's absurd to say that Katherine's
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ideal lover would have to be a Lord Baron et
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you know a boy accidentally found at the door One
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of unknown origins like that was bad in those days
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or award of her father all storylines taken from novels
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not even a barren ET suggests that a titled aristocrats
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still wouldn't be good enough for a heroine Catherine So
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the answer here it's d a sarcastic comment on heroism
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Yeah alright loser bowl Well instead of supporting the idea
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of royal breeding here that it's like a good thing
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the author is mocking it So get rid of egg
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in her sarcasm The author indicates that a baronet would
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barely be even good enough because gatherings too highfalutin So
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get rid of be well and then the line isn't
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meant metaphorically And if it were well it would be
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unclear what the Baron et represents So yeah you could
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just like get rid of sea social atmosphere Where that
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come from The author never reveals Ah weather non shes
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nobility from her flippant tone However it's unlikely that she
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is So get rid of Ian The right answer Here
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is d A sarcastic comment on heroism Yeah D as 00:01:40.1 --> [endTime] in Dist
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