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AP English Language and Composition 9.4 Passage Drill
Transcript
- 00:00
Sorry And here's your shmoop too sure brought to you
- 00:04
by the liars The musical instrument Not these two guys
- 00:08
with a white van in the fake rolexes They really
- 00:10
did look genuine though Take a look at the passage
- 00:12
along one even skim it Just skim it Look ropey
Full Transcript
- 00:15
word here a word there Here a little there A
- 00:17
little here A little You were all right The rhetorical
- 00:21
function of the alien liar in paragraph two Beginning line
- 00:25
twenty is tio What and hear potential answers are the
- 00:29
rhetorical function Sounds like an oxymoron All right is the
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rhetorical function of the lyre To describe how impressions excite
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human behavior Well there's nothing in the text about the
- 00:39
liar representing human endeavor So we can rule this one
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out right away People are not like the heart because
- 00:44
the heart is subject to every gust of wind While
- 00:47
people can adjust to the wind as it changes let's
- 00:49
look at sea Does the liar portray how the senses
- 00:52
combined for harmonious effect Well this is a nice idea
- 00:55
There's also no mention of the harmonious nous of the
- 00:58
senses in the text So this is another easy one
- 01:01
to rule out is the liar Analogy suggests that artist
- 01:03
tune themselves to their surroundings Well if you look back
- 01:06
and be we know that tuning toe one surroundings is
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what separates all humans from liars not just artists If
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all people doing to their surroundings and there's nothing unique
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about artists in this context and we can rule out
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deep by mentioning the liar Does the author imply that
- 01:19
imagination worth with nature to produce art well on the
- 01:22
superhero team of imagination and art are teaming up to
- 01:25
fight dullness Sounds pretty cool again We have an answer
- 01:29
here that is not mentioned in the text This connection
- 01:32
is never made for us so we don't have to
- 01:34
consider it when deciding what the correct answer is Our
- 01:36
only remaining option is a so let's hope It's the
- 01:38
right one Let's look at ambrose bierce is the devil's
- 01:41
dictionary published in nineteen o six Because it's hard to
- 01:44
find any more recent mentions of liars in this satirical
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dictionary beers to find the lyre as an ancient instrument
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of torture the word is now used in a figurative
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sense to denote poetic faculty Well bierce is clearly a
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man After shelley's own heart denoting the poetic faculty or
- 02:00
talking about poetry for those of you who live in
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the twenty first century is exactly what the essay is
- 02:04
getting It that's Why option a depicts how various experiences
- 02:08
act on the mind is the correct choice When the
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author says that man is an instrument over which a
- 02:13
siri's of external and internal impressions or driven he is
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not saying that people are literally instruments Instead he's talking
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about how experiences affect the mind and how the mind
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reacts to those experiences And as we figured out earlier
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humans differ from the liar in this simile because they
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can produce harmony and make adjustments to the wind On
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the fly is our final answer Good work everyone rock 00:02:34.243 --> [endTime] on
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