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CAHSEE ELA 9.3 Ambiguities. Which of the following is an example of figurative language in the previous passage?
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CAHSEE ELA 7.1 Characteristics. Which of the following best expresses one of the themes in the previous passage?
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour...
- 00:08
It's read and review time, shmoops and shmoopettes...
- 00:22
Which of the following BEST expresses one of the themes in the previous passage?
- 00:29
And here are the potential answers:
- 00:38
Okay, any time we get a question like this that appeals to our understanding of the passage
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- 00:42
as a whole...
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...it's really just asking if we can comprehend and interpret what we're reading.
- 00:48
In other words... it wants to know if we're zoning out and thinking instead about this
- 00:51
weekend's fantasy football draft. As long as we read the passage carefully,
- 00:56
we should get that this whole thing... is about love. Awww.
- 01:01
A doesn't make much sense, because there were really no "wounds"... none that were
- 01:05
mentioned, anyway.
- 01:07
B is a shot in the dark. Unless you consider love a crime, we guess.
- 01:11
And D is a little presumptuous... these people may be old, but they're not dead yet. So
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no, D's no good either.
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This passage is all about love... so our answer is C.
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