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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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In the last paragraph (lines 64–79), the author suggests that the primary reason Lee took so long to publish her novel was because
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Okay last one in this section from the deep south
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in the last paragraph on line six for seventy nine
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Authors suggest that the primary reason lee took so long
- 00:13
to publish her novel was because well why Well the
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quotation from lee is critical here Our faith in you
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was really all i had heard them say Although to
- 00:27
kill a mockingbird is a masterpiece lean needed some convincing
- 00:30
before she unleashed it upon the world Thank goodness and
- 00:33
you know her friends that she did well the finances
- 00:35
or sure to have helped But lee's response suggests that
- 00:38
it was more the act of faith it took for
- 00:40
her friends to make the gesture and then the money
- 00:42
itself There's no indication that lee's personal connection to the
- 00:45
story kept her from wanting to publishers and lee's foray
- 00:50
into law school well likely did play a role in
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delaying the publishing of the book But all that happened
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before she set off for new york determined to write
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to get rid of the there Her many random jobs
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indicate that well she didn't know what to do with
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her life but she did later decide to become a
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writer Still we recommend consulting a guidance counselor or shmoop
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careers before you decide that in english Major is the
- 01:10
right degree for you You could end up sitting in
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my chair and you so don't want to do that
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