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CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?
CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?
CAHSEE 1.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word alumni in this sentence?
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CAHSEE 9.4 Passage Drill. In Paragraph 7, the sentence, "The evidence we have is anecdotal," suggests that the evidence is...what?
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Sorry and here's your shmoop toos your brought to you
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by anecdotes we learned the hard way they don't help
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with snake bites Different reports were scrawling were scrawling oil
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pulling science note on coconut oil Okay we're done in
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paragraph seven the sentence the evidence we have is anecdotal
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suggests that the evidence is what and hear the potential
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answers likely All right the author makes it pretty clear
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what anecdotal means when she says the evidence we have
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is anecdotal people tell stories about how the practices helped
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them and that's all we have to go on So
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anecdotal evidence is only based on the stories people tell
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right it's like with big foot the loch ness monster
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alien abductions and intelligent congressman remind us later and we'll
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tell you the story of where we were from nineteen
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eighty two eighty five short version is we're not alone
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foresee is definitely no good paragraph clearly warns that we
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can't trust anecdotal evidence because well sometimes people don't know
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what they're talking about our miss informed or they just
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make stuff up people they're the worst even though we
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can totally trust what people say Well choice a takes
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it a little too far just because we can't be
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sure that anecdotal evidence is for real doesn't mean that
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it's all a lie Sometimes people do actually know what
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they're talking about Go figure option d takes it too
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far as well Anecdotal evidence is not meant to be
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straight up fiction The author says that this type of
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evidence comes from stories but they aren't supposed to be
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completely made up We'll be is the best answer By
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far Anecdotal evidence may not be totally untrue but it
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isn't the solid scientific evidence we prefer Can you blame 00:01:48.028 --> [endTime] us Moshi scientific evidence is a kind of revolting
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