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CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?
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?
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CAHSEE ELA 4.3 Writing Strategies. Which of the following would be the most precise way of restating sentence 6?
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right Checking the following passage All right Which of the
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following would be the most precise way of restating Sentence
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six and hear the potential answer All right the main
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word we should pay attention to in this question is
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precise When we look at sentence six we need to
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ask ourselves if it says exactly what it means Is
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the author's saying that everything was actually still well let's
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hope not if everything was still then that would mean
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that everybody on earth would freeze in place the wind
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would cease and every planet would stop orbiting How much
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more boring could one universe git unless the other is
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trying to write a scifi novel and didn't tell anybody
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Well we're sure that she didn't literally mean everything was
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still in general We should avoid the word everything in
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our writing since it tends to be a shortcut to
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a vague city Yeah right there All that said we're
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now sure that we can cut choice d which is
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apparently okay with vagueness choice isn't a whole lot better
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We've now narrowed things down from everything there is to
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the whole world it's step in the right direction but
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sometimes that's just not enough until dr horrible perfects his
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freeze ray the whole world isn't going to stand still
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Well choice b does zoom in a bit more about
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it's Not exactly accurate Well that was a zoom According
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to the narrator the insects and frogs are still a
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cz well so it's not just the landscape that's taken
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a break Imagine the size of the cup of coffee
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the whole landscape would need on a break All right
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well even though choice sea is pretty general it's the
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best answer because it's the most precise from our narrators
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perspective Everything in the immediate vicinity of the girl stand
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still for a moment it's like she's playing a massive
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