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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?
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In lines 63–65, the author writes that "The popular comedian Richard Pryor infamously set himself on fire while trying to cook up freebase in 1980" in order to
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Okay More questions for you Ap england shmoop ear's in
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line sixty three through sixty five Young will go to
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him in a minute The author writes that the popular
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comedian richard pryor infamously set himself on fire while trying
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to cook up freebase in nineteen eighty in order tio
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what In this paragraph the author's describing how cocaine became
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more popular which led to users looking for more intense
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highs despite whatever risks were involved Well the example drives
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that point home If a celebrity is now doing freebase
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cocaine like smoking it you can't do it without setting
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himself on fire Well then it must be a pervasive
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in dangerous problem in america Thank goodness celebrities nowadays have
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you know cleaned up their act kind of The author
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only mentions richard pryor on this line so he can't
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be considered a true character in the piece So get
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rid of a no He's a comedian The tone of
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the lines specifically the word infamously suggests that it isn't
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meant to be humorous Shmoop you'd have that but not
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this kind of writing so get her to be the
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author says off Few users began experimenting with the freebasing
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which isn't enough to conclude that he meant exclusively Celebrities
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get rid of sea and the date isn't given extra
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importance anywhere else in the text for the right answer
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here it's d to emphasize the danger and pervasiveness of
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crack cocaine Just say shmoop
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