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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 2.4 Reading Skills
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In this GED problem, figure out why the author decided to include two paragraphs of first person narration at the beginning of the paragraph. GED Reasoning through Language Arts: Reading Skills Drill 4, Problem 3


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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour brought to you

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by first person narration because we're telling the story way

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are taken the following passage in sixteen anaesthetic right What

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purpose does the author fulfil that including the two paragraphs

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of first person narration at the beginning of the story

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And what purpose and the options air here stylistic choice

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for generations All right well if you're familiar with the

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short story or you just skipped it and watch the

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brad pitt movie you probably know there's a shot coming

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spoiler there's an old man baby but that unsettling surprise

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has nothing to do with the choice of first person

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voice which certainly isn't intimate And the phrase i am

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told Well it kind of indicates that the narrator didn't

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experience these events firsthand unless he has a really bad

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case of amnesia There's a little historical flavor here too

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but it's not anything that couldn't be communicated in the

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third person That is how most history books are written

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after all right All right letting us know that we're

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about to hear a story so bizarre and strange Even

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he thinks it's weird indicates that the narrator wants our

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attention Like when you see the latest celebrity scandal on

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t m z and just have to tell someone about

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it it gets us jazz and excited for the spectacle

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to come So the correct answer is be the first

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person narration grabs the reader's attention and sets up the

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spectacle shared by both the reader and narrator and that's

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Why We think first person is a very helpful tool 00:01:37.105 --> [endTime] Ah

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