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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?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.1 Passage Drill 7. The primary purpose of this passage is what?
Wishing upon a star may help you pass your AP English Language and Composition test, but answering this question would be a safer bet.
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Description:
The description in lines 89–92 ("To say. . . slave traders") is meant to
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Okay Peeing langer's last question for you in this section
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The description in lines eighty nine to ninety two is
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meant to what Eighty nine says to say the least
- 00:19
it must have been an odd scene The foul crowded
- 00:21
ship like a floating slum densely packed with brutalized black
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captives compelled the sing by whip bearing white slave traders
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It's an arresting scene but its primary goal is to
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depict the cultural experience that led to the blues After
- 00:35
all the music isn't called the gleeful pastel inks or
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the cheerful butter yellows Yeah that was not the blues
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The description is supposed to evoke some kind of response
- 00:45
from the reader but of course one that's relevant to
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the passage itself White racism and cruelty is an a
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and black oppression is indy Are parts of this story
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but not the main points One intention is certainly to
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show how long history the blues has c though not
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to suggest that blacks had initially been forced to sing
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it because the songs on slave ships weren't well yet
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Officially the blues So get rid of heat right answer
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here It's meant to describe the kind of suffering that
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birth blues music that exists today
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