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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.
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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