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CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?
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CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?
CAHSEE ELA 8.5 Literary Devices 209 Views
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CAHSEE ELA 8.5 Literary Devices. Which of the following statements least accurately describes an aside?
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- 00:03
This probably won't be the shmoopiest question you've ever heard in your life...
- 00:08
Which of the following statements LEAST accurately describes an aside?
- 00:13
And here are the potential answers:
- 00:20
OK, so these questions are actually nice learning tools because we know that THREE of the answers
- 00:24
are going to be correct...ish and generally descriptive of what an 'aside' is...
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- 00:30
One strategy to figure them out is to just read all of the choices, figure out which
- 00:33
3 are most alike and then pick... whatever's left. Or... the least likely. Got it?
- 00:40
OK, so what IS an aside, anyway? Well, if we didn't know, we'd guess it's the
- 00:45
French fries, not the burger.
- 00:49
If we read A, B, and C carefully, they all sound pretty plausible.
- 00:53
Yeah - we could see Tevye or Jean Valjean havin' a chat with Pauline in the front row.
- 00:59
It could reveal stuff about the character and... sure, it could be funny. Why not?
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But then there's D...
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How could an aside - or really any comment - NOT reveal something about the main character?
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Just doesn't make sense. Couldn't happen.
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So... D is false, or least likely.
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As in, "Do You Hear the People Sing?"
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