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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?
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In line 29, "iconoclasts" most nearly means
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Okay Ap england people More questions for you on coffee
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and coke in line twenty nine Iconoclasts most nearly means
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what All right let's give twenty nine Let's see Right
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here During the nineteen sixties and seventies few iconoclasts began
- 00:22
selling whole coffee beans which customers could grind and brew
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fresh at home to achieve better flavor Well i kinda
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class means a non conformist Well the whole point is
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to say that they were intrepid trailblazers who decided that
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the available coffee that tasted like water down dirt it
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was actually nasty And a better idea would be to
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provide customers with the beans to make their own mohr
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delicious stuff custom at home What made these cellars iconoclasts
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was their individual is um well of course they were
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also businessmen get rid a and probably coffee lovers get
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rid of b two But so were the guys selling
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the water down dirt The author isn't trying to say
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that they were social outliers or scoundrels because well that's
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just rude So get rid of cny Answer is the
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individualists You know like we hear it shmoop
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