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AP English Literature: Inferring About the Luggnaggians
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According to the information presented in the first and second paragraph (lines 1-26), it can be reasonably inferred that the kingdom of the Luggna...

AP English Literature: Inexpressible Adjectives
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In line 27, the adjective "inexpressible" is used

AP English Literature: Restating the Main Idea
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The main idea of the second paragraph (lines 24-33) can best be restated that

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AP English Literature: Making a Heroine 4 Views


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The narrator supports the assertion she makes in lines 1-3 primarily through


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No Okay Next up AP English Lit people Here we

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go The narrator supports the assertion she makes in lines

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one into primarily through what I have no choices metaphors

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illusions hyperbolic statements juxtaposition in percent of kids Alright let's

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skim back the lines one and two way up here

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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her

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infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroin

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You can tell this is written in British Americans All

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right well let's think about it Throughout passage the narrator

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make statements about Catherine Moreland's family personality and you know

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inclinations which she immediately contrast with those of a heroine

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The author states that everything was against her in line

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five Right there We're not making this up And the

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rest of the first three paragraphs well they serve as

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a list of reasons why no one would have supposed

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her born to be an heroine So the answer here

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it's deep juxtaposition of Catherine Morland qualities with those of

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a heroine Got it Okay well loser bowl No metaphors

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Compare Catherine Morland to a heroine because while she's distinctly

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unlike a heroin so get rid of egg there's no

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personification of her qualities as heroin like because they're not

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heroin like in the first place Just kind of normal

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gals get rid of it The allusions to poetry or

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used to illustrate Katherine's own attempts to be a heroine

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was we say not and but they don't support the

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point made in her first two sentences So get rid

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of B If anything narrator understates Katherine's abilities calling her

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occasionally stupid in line thirty five So we just get

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rid of that in a duck with a left hook

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that's coming in our heads So that's it The answer 00:02:19.118 --> [endTime] is D is in dog

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