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PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?

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PSAT 1.3 Reading Diagnostic. The author mentions the navigational technique called "equal altitudes" in the third paragraph to ...what?


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any time you go saline All right we're skimming The

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author mentions that navigational technique called equal altitudes in the

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third paragraph Tio what And here the potential answers them

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play navigate illustrate are equal altitude sounds like a new

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sitcom on tvs Couple of commercial airline pilots who are

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polar opposites are forced to get along in equal altitude

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Anyway our narrator utters this phrase and now we have

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to figure out what his purpose wass for doing so

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We assume he didn't just let the words fall out

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of his mouth for no reason Although if you never

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accompanied with general party well nothing happened All right Was

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it a to show how navigation was taught toe amateur

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navigators Well this guy has certainly had enough experience dealing

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with amateur navigators hasn't Yeah No According to our narrator

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the narrator in question was pretty much a bumbling idiot

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and never should have been using this method in the

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first place No it shouldn't be taught to anyone except

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possibly as a cautionary tale So take a hike today

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Next up option b was he explaining that navigation used

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to be an inexact science Only that it was in

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exactly the way that moron was doing it No Our

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narrator doesn't tell us anything about how advanced the science

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of navigation was at the time In general just that

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equal altitude was not the way to go All right

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then let's take c for a spin Was he illustrating

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the great distances that the snark traveled on her Cruz

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Well the distance traveled might have been longer after they

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decided to take the scenic route but either way they

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were in the midst of a pretty lengthy voyage when

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it comes down to it are narrator seems much more

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concerned with conveying the ineptitude of his underlings and he

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is talking about know much of anything else which brings

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us to choice deep he was demonstrating that the captains

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of the snark blacked competence on the nosey Our narrator

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is kati as all get out and isn't above gossiping

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or ratting people out for being intellectually challenged If he

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worked in an office he'd be the guy hanging out

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in the break room telling anyone who will listen that

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a monkey could learn to put together a powerpoint presentation

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more coherent than brenda's So anyway these are answer as

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in dead to rights also coming to tbs this fall

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a delightful comedy about a supreme court judge and the 00:02:38.855 --> [endTime] grim reaper who happen to be roommates

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