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AP English Language and Composition 6.10 Passage Drill. What significance does the title of the article have to the reading?
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- 00:00
Sorry And here's your smoke du jour brought to you
- 00:05
by the maids of mount olympus Nobody cleans up a
- 00:09
god awful mess Better okay let's skim the following passage
- 00:14
Familiar Have only read this like eighty times before on
- 00:17
human labor and blab above the four armed kannon lines
Full Transcript
- 00:21
But uh francis source And we're done so The title
- 00:34
of this article is the sea stis of magnolia What
- 00:37
significance does this title have to the reading And here
- 00:41
are potential answers right now Love divine Very practical Well
- 00:47
see stis is an armored club that was used in
- 00:49
ancient battles in greek mythology Ag Leah was a goddess
- 00:53
of beauty and adornment who was married to have festus
- 00:56
the god of metallurgy and weaponry So by now we're
- 01:01
pretty comfortable with this passage and we have a fairly
- 01:03
decent idea of what the others talking about You know
- 01:05
the author doesn't talk about religion or its inspiration on
- 01:08
art and he never comments on well made gloves artistic
- 01:12
or otherwise That means we cannot got answers danny in
- 01:15
the first round now let's break down the title itself
- 01:17
The sea stis of ag julia First we know that
- 01:20
paglia is the greek goddess of beauty and adornment We
- 01:23
also know that her husband the greek god of armor
- 01:25
and weaponry sounds like just the kind of guy who
- 01:28
would be in the ceaseless business Fine art is often
- 01:30
admired for its beauty and its ability to liven up
- 01:33
its surroundings so often Author wanted something or someone to
- 01:36
symbolize the fine arts in a title for his article
- 01:39
Actually it makes a pretty logical choice Meanwhile a cease
- 01:43
this is made out of metal and has a more
- 01:45
pressure awful purpose than simply providing beauty Sounds like a
- 01:48
perfect representation of the mechanical arts tow us So why
- 01:52
would agli ever need a cease this of her own
- 01:54
The image of a fair goddess of beauty wearing a
- 01:57
metal glove made for war would probably raising a few
- 02:00
eyebrows up on olympus but gains nothing but support from
- 02:04
us mortals which is another way of saying that they
- 02:06
are a dichotomy And since the author spends much of
- 02:09
this passage highlighting the difference between the mechanical arts and
- 02:12
the fine arts and it makes sense that his title
- 02:14
would do the same thing symbolically that means that sea
- 02:17
is our right answer Now would somebody buy those messy 00:02:20.743 --> [endTime] god's a roomba Yeah
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