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AP English Language and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill
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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 7.8 Passage Drill
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AP English Language: Spider-Train, Spider-Train 4 Views


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The phrase "a spider web of railroads" (line 14) is used in order to


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Okay Peeing langer's a next question for you The phrase

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a spiderweb of railroads online fourteen there is used in

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order to what No All right let's go to fourteen

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And cruz and spider you go gotta gotta a spiderweb

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railroads and soon telephone lines stretched across country created new

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opportunities for entrepreneurs and cheaper goods for consumers Well let's

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think about this A spider web is a beautiful complicated

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thing right That as many strings which may or may

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not be perfectly in line But they all connect to

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form a cohesive network which is exactly how a railroad

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system looks The figurative language here helps the reader better

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imagine what's being described right So those spiders maybe vicky

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to some and totally married our traditional run screaming in

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the other direction Strategy There's nothing to suggest that the

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author dislikes the railroad system how it contributed to industrial

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development So get rid of a or how it was

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financed Get rid of b In fact this transportation created

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new opportunities for entrepreneurs and cheaper goods for consumers which

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is a good thing and says nothing about its safety

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So get rid of sea or cramped cars Get rid

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of e right answer here Yeah it's d depict the

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expansive transportation network writes That makes the country smaller and 00:01:16.377 --> [endTime] better and more connected so that's it It's deep

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