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Texas EOC English 1: 1.4 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres 196 Views
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop dooz
- 00:05
your brought to you by death Yeah who says it
- 00:08
never gives back All right check out to one two
- 00:12
shortly die to answer the following question and this one
- 00:15
right here and going down Read this like eighteen times
Full Transcript
- 00:22
by now All right We're just skimming on and then
- 00:25
i want weapons thing Okay In line to pre varick
- 00:30
eight means what And here the potential answers and we
- 00:34
don't see do something before barricading Not on there Okay
- 00:40
well if we take blinds two and three into account
- 00:43
the context makes it hard to miss the meaning of
- 00:46
prevaricate The speaker is telling the dying person that he's
- 00:49
going to be totally honest even if other people tell
- 00:52
the dying person that he or she is going to
- 00:54
be all right The speaker isn't gonna sugar coat anything
- 00:58
when he says stuff like there is no escape for
- 01:01
you It's pretty clear that uh well what he means
- 01:05
no escape Let's start by eliminating choice b hesitate and
- 01:09
pre varick eight rhyme but that's where the similarities and
- 01:13
if we substituted this choice in for pre varick aid
- 01:16
the meaning of the poem would change Yeah the speaker's
- 01:19
not hesitating to be honest but that's not what we're
- 01:22
going for here and the jury's out on whether he
- 01:25
ought to be hesitating before he's so brutally honest with
- 01:29
option d comprehend doesn't fit Either thiss would imply that
- 01:34
the speaker doesn't understand something but he totally gets everything
- 01:37
that's going down Somebody he loves is dying and he
- 01:41
feels it's his job to tell the dying person the
- 01:43
cold hard facts Well if we plug choice see into
- 01:46
the mix that it makes it sound like the speaker
- 01:49
doesn't want to hear what others have to say this
- 01:52
disc with kind of hypocrite would he be if he
- 01:55
couldn't take hearing the truth from others Well the best
- 01:58
answer is option A This true even though pre varick
- 02:01
eight doesn't always mean toe lie exactly Sometimes it references
- 02:06
when a person kind of talks around an issue deliberately
- 02:09
misleading someone else but like who are we kidding That
- 02:12
flying teo point is our speaker doesn't do any of
- 02:14
this he's painfully honest no matter what way can't decide
- 02:19
whether or not that we want this guide our death
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