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Texas EOC English 2: 4.2 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop dues

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you're brought to you by whales what's the difference between

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a dog and a marine biologist one wags the tail

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the other tags a whale All right check the following

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passage by melville moby is something wrong with my men

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Avoid when and why did the greeks give us ever

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dating So i mean but the same him and join

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yourselves in and this cute off the other begins the

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passage with a serious of questions to what and hear

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the potential answers like a possibility upholstery a question about

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questions where will it all in While not with answer

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B that's for sure even though the speaker is asking

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a bunch of questions his point isn't about how irresistible

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it is toe answer him anyone has taken the osi

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knows that question answering is not exactly irresistible choice see

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isn't right either We're pretty sure that the speaker has

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something more impressive obviously than simply trying to him oppress

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us with his knowledge of history and miss that's always

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got well were not impressed Option a sounds like a

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smart answer that doesn't make it correct The speaker isn't

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necessarily pondering nature as a whole he zeroed in on

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the mysteries of the sea And we're not talking about

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the location of black beard's treasure here either The best

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answer is choice d each question posed by the speaker

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contains a reference to people's fascination with water specifically the

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ocean even more specifically our palace speakers using examples from

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throughout history to show us just how universal this fascination

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with the ocean is boiler Moby dick takes place on 00:01:33.21 --> [endTime] the ocean just a heads up

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