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CAHSEE 1.1 Passage Drill 1135 Views
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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
Transcript
- 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
- 01:07
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
- 01:42
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
- 02:13
new horizon of an unknown planet Maybe that planet would
- 02:18
be more well known if it tried exfoliating once in
- 02:21
a while Yeah i didn't get those out of there
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