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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...
In line 27, the adjective "inexpressible" is used
The main idea of the second paragraph (lines 24-33) can best be restated that
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The purpose of the first stanza (lines 1-12) is primarily to
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No Okay AP English people got another section for your
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big fat Calm Uh we're just gonna kind of cruise
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through it here and looking and just kind of winking
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at it first All right First question Let's just get
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to it The purpose of the first stands and lines
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one through twelve primarily to do what All right let's
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skim and mercifully there short I know some lonely houses
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off the road or Robert like the look of a
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wooden barred and windows hanging low inviting to a portico
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where two could creep one and the tools the other
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peop to make sure all is asleep They're clever Reimers
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Year old fashioned I's not easy to surprise Yeah that's
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an Aerosmith All right Well let's think about this immediately
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We're acquainted with the poems setting and the mysterious fellows
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that hypothetically linger outside the first stands There really gives
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a sense of the location within the poem and the
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fact that something sneaky could happen here So the answer
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is a there to create a setting of sense of
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intrigue Do they do that All right so the loser
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bowl here while sure we have a few characters being
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introduced but it looks like they're getting along just fine
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in their sticky business without any conflicts I'll get rid
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of be There isn't a whole lot of juxtaposition going
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on between the setting or the speaker's tone because well
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we don't hear much about the speaker's perspective So get
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rid of sea There's always an impending theme Get rid
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of the lurking somewhere in the poetry But again the
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focus is on this setting here clearly way more important
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than the lurking thing And we have no idea whether
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Speaker is lonely because well she seems like a spectator
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or avoid you're here or something like that So get
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rid of you So the answer is just a That's
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it It's a sense of intrigue you know kind of 00:01:45.91 --> [endTime] like why you're doing this video
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