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CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?
CAHSEE 1.5 Passage Drill. In this line from the story, the words buzz and pulsated suggest the crowd is...what?
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CAHSEE 1.4 Passage Drill. What does the use of flashbacks accomplish in "Graduation"?
- Conventions / Apply knowledge of language to make effective choices for meaning or style
- Conventions / Apply knowledge of language to make effective choices for meaning or style
- Conventions / Apply knowledge of language to make effective choices for meaning or style
- Narrative Analysis / Time and Sequence
- Narrative Analysis / Literary Devices
Transcript
- 00:00
Hurry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
- 00:05
by a fear of public speaking Who really took a
- 00:08
lot to say that Just all right Check the following
- 00:11
passage on pause on my way up podian breathe breathe
- 00:16
breathe breathing out Early world He likes to hear himself
Full Transcript
- 00:22
think okay Okay but what is the use of flashbacks
- 00:44
accomplish in graduation All right And here the financial answers
- 00:49
Okay here we go Well there's no real tricks to
- 00:52
getting this one right way Just have tio you know
- 00:54
read the past proving once again that the key to
- 00:56
reading comprehension is well reading joyce tea is probably the
- 00:59
easiest cross off the list It might help the narrator
- 01:02
to remember her speech if she flashback to the time
- 01:05
she wrote it but i knew our narrator relies solely
- 01:07
on her trusty notecards choice See is wrong as well
- 01:10
Narrator tells us that she and lynn are b f
- 01:12
f's and are about to spend their summer together at
- 01:14
the beach where like every recent college brad they'll make
- 01:17
only responsible decisions with our future Option b doesn't work
- 01:22
either Narrator mentions that her parents are out there but
- 01:25
she doesn't say anything about what they look like Let's
- 01:27
hope her dad didn't wear an embarrassing shirt or something
- 01:30
You know we've been looks like our best option is
- 01:32
a what makes graduation such an incredibly emotional days that
- 01:35
we're all so busy living our everyday lives that we
- 01:37
can hardly believe the big finale has come so quickly
- 01:40
in this story The use of flashbacks helps readers understand
- 01:43
why the narrator's so high strung about this whole speech
- 01:45
thing It's fortunate for her She can't flash forward if
- 01:49
you could see what life had in store for her 00:01:50.683 --> [endTime] Well she'd really have something stress about
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