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CAHSEE ELA 8.1 Literary Devices
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CAHSEE 12.1 Passage Drill. What kind of person is the narrator in the passage?

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Hurry We want to ask you a question but no

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need to come down to the station All right check

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out the following passage of time my friend that's my

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home time Well what kind of person is the narrator

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in this passage And here the potential answers lazy stress

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out All right so this one asked us to read

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the poem and get to know the narrator it's a

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short poem so well re read it quickly with that

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in mind after getting to know the narrator a little

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better We're positive that we can cross out choice B

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there's No way This guy is stressed He's totally willing

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to ditch his unholy hills for a while so that

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he could go have a chat with his friend Option

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a is really tempting We might assume that speaker is

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a little lazy since he's so willing to shirk his

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farm early duties to hang out with his butt But

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we figure if he were lazy he wouldn't be out

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there toiling in the fields to begin with Answer D

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is an absolute no this guy's his children's It gets

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there's no way he's awkward and so by the process

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Of elimination we get choice See this answer would be

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stronger if the poem hinted that friend needed some kind

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of really help But it's The best answer we've got 00:01:14.418 --> [endTime] So long

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