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Texas EOC English 2: 3.5 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 169 Views
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
- 00:05
jour brought to you by the ungraceful phantom of life
- 00:09
We wish it were as deep as it sounds Check
- 00:11
out the following passage from the trembling of a leaf
- 00:14
somerset mom that's how you pronounce it like you're the
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- 00:17
one who gave birth to you Yeah I'm gonna beat
- 00:20
your hand any lyman's Ulysses pacific is the leg you
- 00:24
sail way Alright then we got moby dick by herman
- 00:28
melville here mind greeks is every evening until lamenting in
- 00:33
what ways do the speakers in the two passages view
- 00:36
the ocean from a similar perspective and hear the potential
- 00:40
answers ocean similar perspective other than that it's wet two
- 00:44
great authors to great passengers what will happen when worlds
- 00:48
collide Tune in it all right Option d doesn't totally
- 00:52
grasp the situation While we could say that the first
- 00:55
speaker describes the ocean is unpredictable the second speaker doesn't
- 00:59
say anything about the ocean being unchanging Choice b doesn't
- 01:02
get it either Well it gets that the second speaker
- 01:04
admires the ocean however saying that the first speaker fears
- 01:08
the ocean has gone a little too far German speaker
- 01:10
says that the ocean can fill people with a vague
- 01:13
for voting but he also says that it fills us
- 01:16
with an intolerable desire for life so the first passage
- 01:20
is actually saying that the ocean makes us feel a
- 01:22
ton of things at the same time sounds exhausting Next
- 01:26
vacation we're heading to the desert option is totally wrong
- 01:29
These authors clearly view the ocean from a similar perspective
- 01:33
They should go together on an author's cruise our money's
- 01:35
on melville for the harpoon throwing contest There's no doubt
- 01:38
about it Option c is the correct answer The speaker
- 01:41
and mom's passage describes the way the stormy seas caused
- 01:45
impatience for the unknown and a drive for adventure Meanwhile
- 01:50
the speaker in melville's novel describes how people are drawn
- 01:52
to the ocean and explains that the image we see
- 01:55
reflected in it is the ungraceful ble phantom of life
- 01:59
yeah that's where that came from This sounds like a
- 02:02
lot of not knowing us way Maybe we should watch 00:02:04.99 --> [endTime] this video again
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