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

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by echoes echoes echoes You know like that Okay we're

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bored with it now All right check the following passage

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echoing green going blank and lousy echoing echo echo echo

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Right Remember lego my ego commercial around Are you done

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reading around the laps of their mothers Probably dark right

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All right Well what is the effect created by the

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repetition of the phrase echoing green in the last lines

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of the first two stands And here the potential answers

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Now any of this grab you all right What's up

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william like did you just run out of things to

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say or is there some point to the repetition repetition

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And we figured there must be some method to the

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madness choice a says that blake is trying to get

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across thie unbearable loudness of the green But that doesn't

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really compute all the sounds the poet describes are enjoyable

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Merry bells birds singing laughing and playing there's nothing that

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would be considered unbearably loud Of course Merry bells might

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be considered unbearable bites on but that's a different story

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Thank you mr grinch waken next choice b as well

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Since everybody seems to be having a good time it's

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a chill scene and nothing scary even old john is

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living it up Okay all john might be a little

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scary And finally we'll eliminate option c old john and

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his gray haired posse You're sitting around talking about how

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they used to play games on the green Well this

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is a place where generations of people have had a

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good time and there's no reason to think it's going

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to stop until we read blakes follow up palm the

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echoing strip mall All right well last would come to

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choice D The correct answer The repetition of the echoing

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green is an echo itself and it gives us a

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sense of the way wide open spaces sometimes get all 00:01:50.669 --> [endTime] echoey echoes echoes echoes

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