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AP English Language and Composition 9.3 Passage Drill. What is "reason" associated with in the following phrase?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by writers who

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prove that the pen is mightier than the sword and much easier to write with..... [Man scribbling with a pen and a man holding a sword appears]

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All right take a look at the following passage if you haven't already, just

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skim it, skim it fast, skim it long, skim it wide, skim it deep and just skim it

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alright we're done in the phrase reason respects the differences and imagination

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the similitudes of things reason is associated with what and here are

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potential answers.... all right does the authors use of the word reason refer to

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synthesis well synthesis makes an appearance in the piece but not in [Synthesis circled in a piece of text]

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connection to reason the author tells us that this word which translates to

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making or imagination is the principle of synthesis if synthesis is related to [Person creating pottery]

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making rather than reasoning well we can just get A out of our lives how about

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integration well again the author associates this concept with the

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principle of imagination not hard to see why just use your you know what's that [Girl imagining herself as a warrior]

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word..... if the integration requires imagination

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then refutation of this interpretation will provide us justification for our

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vindication, ahem... All right well does harmony answer our question harmony

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maybe what happens when ebony and ivory get along together but harmony is also

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connected to imagination in the text now we have two more answers we can rule out

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well if we look at option E once more the writer has connected the word agent [Agent circled in red in a paragraph]

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to imagination while agencies may be good places to find jobs, they're not good

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as the answer to this question so get rid of E...We've easily eliminated all

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the options now and we're just left would B this one required us to read

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closely but if we look at line 11 the author states that reasoning is the [Reasoning circled in red in a piece of text]

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principle of analysis huh well we're going with B what's not depressing is

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getting the right answer our inner writers are oh so proud [Two men stood in a room with a piece of paper]

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