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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 Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 7. What is the principal rhetorical function of paragraphs one to three?
AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill 1, Problem 8. The quotation marks in the third paragraph chiefly serve to what?
AP English Language: Identifying the Intended Audience 10 Views
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The most likely intended audience of this piece is
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Okay Ap ingle angers here Go next up for you
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The most likely intended audience of this piece is well
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whom Well The author's focuses how blues evolved because of
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the specific historical social and cultural experiences of african americans
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In essence this piece investigates those experiences through the lens
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of music which is why there's so much information about
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events that wouldn't normally be discussed in a piece about
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music such as the slave trade and jim crow south
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Well the passengers not actually about the music specifically like
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how it sounds lyrics its rhythm and so on because
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that's only mentioned briefly in the first paragraph So get
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rid of a likewise The passage briefly mentions the radical
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reconstruction that followed the civil war but only to provide
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background for the blue So get rid of b Marini
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gets a shout out and see there with a semi
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racist tirade But there isn't enough information here for her
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biography And the passage talks about well racism E only
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in the context that blues was created in response to
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prejudice So the right answer here is the those interested
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in african american culture
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