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CAHSEE 1.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word alumni in this sentence?
CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?
CAHSEE 1.4 Passage Drill. What does the use of flashbacks accomplish in "Graduation"?
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CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?
- Literary / Figurative Language in Historical/Cultural Setting
- Vocabulary / Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings
- Vocabulary / Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings
- Vocabulary / Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings
- Narrative Analysis / Literary Devices
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- 00:00
Sorry And here's your smoke du jour Brought to you
- 00:05
by unknown planets They obviously need to hire better pr
- 00:09
teams you know feeling alright Checking the following passage Hit
- 00:14
pause on my pony in breathe and i breathe out
- 00:18
of breathing Gland All right man For a second group
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- 00:39
of sharp corners We done reading Done Alright Which line
- 00:46
is an example of a meta for all right here
- 00:49
The potential answers right there return it All right Well
- 00:55
similes and metaphors we got this should be a z
- 00:58
Z is three point one four one five to tell
- 01:00
the difference between the two Remember that a simile is
- 01:03
a comparison that uses the words light for as while
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a metaphor is a comparison in which something simply is
- 01:11
something else So for example easiest pie is a simile
- 01:15
because it uses as if we wanted to turn it
- 01:18
into a metaphor We'd simply say easy is pie which
- 01:22
would be a weird thing to say but you get
- 01:23
points and really what's so easy about pie Anyway we
- 01:26
tried making one once in our kitchen is never fully
- 01:29
recovered you know bad zit Okay enough personal sharing let's
- 01:32
move on B and c are easy eliminations Metaphors compare
- 01:36
one thing to another right While neither of these options
- 01:39
do that they'd both just kind of fill us in
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on things that happened Our speaker tells us she's never
- 01:45
spoken in front of a crowd She's trading familiar looks
- 01:48
with henry did anyone else get the impression that there
- 01:51
was something going on between these two thoughts No metaphors
- 01:54
here let's push on to choice d which is more
- 01:57
of a contender We do have a comparison in this
- 02:00
silence is compared to that on the beach however this
- 02:03
comparison uses the word like which makes it a simile
- 02:07
No choice eh gets it right here Our speaker gets
- 02:10
totally metaphorical and says the hats are simply a bumpy
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new horizon of an unknown planet Maybe that planet would
- 02:18
be more well known if it tried exfoliating once in
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a while Yeah i didn't get those out of there
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