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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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Comparing Howard Schultz and "Freeway" Ricky Ross (lines 19–23) is primarily an example of
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- 00:05
Okay Six of seven on this read through of our
- 00:07
drug passage Here we go Comparing howard schultz and freeway
- 00:11
ricky ross in the lines nineteen through twenty three is
- 00:14
primarily an example of what Two of the most successful
- 00:20
drug on for news of recent times are howard schultz
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- 00:23
of starbucks coffee who hooked millions of americans on frappuccinos
- 00:26
and freeway ricky ross of south central l A Who
- 00:29
took thousands of americans on crack Okay well let's think
- 00:32
about this one The author's being ironic in the question
- 00:36
there One wouldn't think that i coffee entrepreneur would have
- 00:38
much in common with a crack dealer But the passage
- 00:41
explains that in terms of selling mind altering substances to
- 00:44
a demanding america while they sure d'oh not the comparison
- 00:47
we saw coming in for short the two businessmen do
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have much in common But lying seventy eight remember we
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skin this whole thing way down here right there drives
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home the main point It's the irony of it all
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So get rid of a There's definitely no normal lesson
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here Get rid of sea and there's no deductive reasoning
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and i'll get rid of deep The author isn't saying
- 01:07
nasty things about shelter so it doesn't count a libel
- 01:09
like where would that come from So the answer is
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b irony because most readers would not consider them to
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have similar career arcs go howard Go ricky That's where 00:01:18.784 --> [endTime] they both live now pretty different
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