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The rhetorical questions used in lines 7-10
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- 00:00
No All right AP English People Next question for you
- 00:07
The rhetorical questions used in Line seven through ten What
- 00:13
What do they do Art Let's go back to torque
- 00:14
aligns here seventeen and beauties or morals or both in
- 00:19
here Seven Here we go in Tempe or the Dales
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- 00:22
of Arkady What men or gods air these What maidens
- 00:26
Law What mad pursuit What struggle to escape What pipes
- 00:31
and timber Lt's what wild next to see Someone clearly
- 00:35
scored a touchdown there and that's how you speak when
- 00:38
you were describing it If you were a football and
- 00:40
all right so here Correct Answer it's B for shadow
- 00:43
the rest of the poem right And that's what a
- 00:45
creepy voice there you get for nothing extra Remember this
- 00:49
is an ode to a Grecian urn Turn The author
- 00:51
is literally addressing his poem Toe a pot which Greeks
- 00:55
used to record their history They really did We're not
- 00:58
making this up The phrase leaf fringed legend right there
- 01:03
refers to the Urns story which was bordered with leaves
- 01:07
Therefore when the author rhetorically asked about the eighties and
- 01:09
the maidens and the mad pursuit he's teasing the reader
- 01:13
with juicy details of what's to come right So party
- 01:16
down party time All right so it's be the loser
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bowl Well since the poems subject is a pot and
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you know what they used to do with pots back
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then it's hard to question its credibility So that's a
- 01:29
bit of that If the rhetorical questions were country victory
- 01:32
are these gods or are they men or are they
- 01:34
NFL mascots Yeah then they could offer alternative viewpoints so
- 01:39
they don't get to see or suggest doubt So get
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rid of the and then finally the author never mentions
- 01:44
what the popular opinion is like Where did that come
- 01:47
from So get rid of that's it It's b were 00:01:49.77 --> [endTime] foreshadowing more questions to come on this I'm sorry
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