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AP English Language and Composition 3.5 Passage Drill. How is "forcible" being used here?


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Sorry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by forcible language Oh sorry we met forcible language Well

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sorry about that but your phone's back in there you

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go all right We're skimming or keep skimming Huxley schmucks

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Lee huxley Okay well we're just going to say we're

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done skimming let's go alright The speaker uses the phrase

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in language more forcible in line forty three so what

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does he mean by forcible here all right near the

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potential answers especially aggressively let's rolling The trick with this

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one is re reading the little paragraph from which this

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quote is taken So the author is saying that professor

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huxley's words are awesome and it huxley says that all

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better than the author can Well maybe he should have

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let hustler write this essay We'll start by kicking choice

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d to the curb Thie author isn't being critical of

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huck say at all He loves the hugs he's probably

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at home and a t shirt with his face on

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them It will be misses The mark to the author

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isn't being cautious about admitting his love for professor huxley

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If they had skywriting back in the day he would

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have written i heart huxley in sky just like that

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choi si is one of those sneaky answers that deliberately

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tries to trick us Quote does use the word forcible

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which lives in the same world is the word aggressively

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And what a pleasant world that must be Thing is

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we're trying to find a word that describes how the

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author feels about the professor's forcible language We're not interested

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in how the professor himself was speaking While we're at

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it we can cross out option e for pretty much

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the same reason Brazenly describe something that's done poor actually

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or boldly like if you went to your aunt mabel

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and finally told her exactly what you think of that

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sergeant casserole she forced you to eat is an innocent

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child This might describe how the professor talks about science

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but it doesn't describe how the author talks about the

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perf officer Talking about science Option is the only one

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that gets it The author really admires professor huxley so

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much so that he quotes the huck's for two whole

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paragraphs Or maybe this writer just needed a little break

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