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CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?
CAHSEE 1.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word alumni in this sentence?
CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?
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CAHSEE: Passage Drill 2, Problem 1. Which of the following strategies does the author use most frequently to describe the state park?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by giant redwoods They've given short redwoods across the globe
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a serious inferiority complex Sorry guys All right check the
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following passage Human beings mesmer one two hundred parts to
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choose from Mammoth park big tree park Are you fine
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Come bring your stuff Night Which of the following strategies
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does the author use most frequently to describe the state
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park and hear the potential answers Injuries Easy alright giant
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redwood forest A beautiful place to get lots of exercise
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especially one running from bear Well first we'll eliminate Answer
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be If there were statistics used in this brochure we'd
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see sentences like well fifty percent of bear sightings in
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the parks have resulted in only minor maulings while statistics
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required numbers and fence signs and stuff like that And
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this brochure is pretty light on both choice See tells
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us that the writer uses quotes from riel live visitors
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to sell us on the park's Let's Take a quick
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scan of the taxes see if we see any quotation
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marks No not a one so we can tell option
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seat and take a hike literally answer d is one
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of those that tries to trick us by being a
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little bit right Well when the author tells us about
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fort ring park we learned that it's big with history
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buffs because of its recreated native american structures and informative
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plaques informant of plaques history bus really know how to
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have a good time Fortunately the author leaves us out
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of the fun and doesn't fill us in on any
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of the exciting info on the plaques so really there
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no historical facts to be had in this brochure especially
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since the bits about the other parks don't mention history
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much at all And so we've narrowed it down to
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answer a which correctly points out the author's liberal use
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of nature imagery We're guessing the author moonlights as a
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poet when he or she isn't writing state park brochures
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A lot of these paragraph sound like loads of love
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to a redwood let's go hug a tree to which
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the fifth grader inna says if you love redwood so 00:02:14.89 --> [endTime] much why don't you just marry one
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