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Texas EOC English 1: 1.6 Understanding and Analysis across Genres 198 Views
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too
- 00:05
Sure brought to you by the sun Why is the
- 00:07
sun so conceited Because the world actually does revolve around
- 00:12
Check out description of a desert and two one shortly
- 00:15
to die and answer the question beloved Case No distinction
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- 00:22
Matthews dying George i think we could be an auction
- 00:27
sales guy Sound like one charlie but and let me
- 00:32
know his game All right what is the main similarity
- 00:36
between the essay and the poem and hear the potential
- 00:39
answers Okay here we go it's time to compare these
- 00:44
passages if we need to skim through him again with
- 00:47
these options in mind Well that's okay but from the
- 00:49
looks of it that probably isn't necessary Answer c is
- 00:51
the easiest to eliminate someone get rid of it first
- 00:54
Sure the first passage mentions the you're eighteen o five
- 00:56
and most people know that walt whitman wrote in the
- 00:58
eighteen hundreds but the information given doesn't verify when both
- 01:02
pieces were written We can't make any assumptions in any
- 01:04
way we're in serious trouble if the time period in
- 01:06
which the pieces were written is the best thing we
- 01:08
can come up with when comparing and contrasting to uncle
- 01:11
walt would not approve of choice is also wrong If
- 01:14
we carefully read through both passages we see that there
- 01:17
actually isn't any figurative language even in a poem there
- 01:20
aren't any similes or metaphors to be seen and then
- 01:23
we have option a it may look corrected first glance
- 01:25
but it just isn't both pieces do refer to the
- 01:27
sun but the first piece mentions the sun's heat while
- 01:31
the second alludes to the sun's brightness neither one talks
- 01:34
about both heat and brightness both of these pieces have
- 01:36
darker things on their mind Choice be the correct answer
- 01:39
picks up on the theme of the inevitability of death
- 01:42
in both passages Cherry right Well in the first piece
- 01:46
we're all about how the scorching desert inevitably brings death
- 01:50
Everybody who forgot to pack a water bottle death has
- 01:53
made you seem a little nicer in the whitman poem
- 01:55
but still the reaper is coming and there's no stopping
- 01:58
him for reefer Everybody says death is lonely from the
- 02:00
dying but did anybody ever stop to think that death
- 02:03
himself might be lonely Do that's Why he's always taking
- 02:06
people away The guy needs some company Uncle walls would 00:02:09.99 --> [endTime] not approve
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