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AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?
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The sixth paragraph (lines 59–63) serves primarily to
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OK next up the sixth paragraph line fifty nine we'll
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get to It serves primarily to do what All right
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paragraph six Let's go upto line fifty nine here in
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mumble her word for my name Atticus Finch attempting Tom
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Robinson Commission of Children There's something in our world it
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makes men lose their heads It couldn't be fair if
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the treasure of course the white man's wearing a black
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man and white man always wins Yeah alright For the
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previous few paragraphs the author has explained a part of
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Liz's life and then shown how it might have worked
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its way into her novel Usually she does both in
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the same paragraph But after she quotes a long passage
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from the Rands Dole report she clarifies that connection The
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ransom report isn't more difficult to understand and the rest
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the passage Nor does the author p paraphrase it like
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a would have you believe Based on the fact that
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the author never summarizes the entire plot of the novel
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it's likely that she assumes readers are familiar with the
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work So get rid of B that can't work This
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paragraph on Ly quotes Atticus Finch like See their primary
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purpose is to take Lee's life with her work not
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to comment on the justice system in general Okay So
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the answer here is the to make explicit that connection 00:01:07.49 --> [endTime] between Lee's upbringing and her novel
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