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Texas EOC English 1: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 2, Problem 2
Texas EOC English 1: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 2, Problem 6
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Texas EOC English 1: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 1, Problem 6
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop dooz
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your brought to you by italians Did you hear about
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the italian chef who died He passed away from the
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tempest Shakespeare would be laughing at our fine job He
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would be roman is grave All right we're done Give
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me following line is an example of what And here
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the potential answers All right well if we flip on
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our elizabethan language translator we see that antonio is saying
- 00:33
that alonso is lying on the ground like a dead
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man Well this is all we need to know to
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trim down These answer choice Start by cutting loose be
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a paradox is not to doc's is instead it's a
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statement that sounds like it contradicts itself but might actually
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be true A saying like less is more counts as
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a paradox There's nothing paradoxical or contradictory in what antonio
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is saying though he's just making a straightforward comparison between
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alonso and a dead man Option c doesn't make the
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cut either We've got irony on her hands when there's
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some kind of twisted logic or expectation or when the
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intended meaning of the word is something different from what
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They might look like on the surface like if somebody
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said sure i'd love to crawl into the sewer and
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watch the money you dropped yeah there's nothing ironic in
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what antonio says again he's directly comparing one thing to
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another This brings us tow options a nd both metaphors
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and similes are comparisons so both answers are right on
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that front However d is the correct answer because similes
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make their comparisons using like or as while metaphors do
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not antonio says that alonso is lying on the ground
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like a dead man right So we've got a simile
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Antonio could also say that alonso is lying on the
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ground like a sunday there but it wouldn't have the
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same ominous effect unless it was like a dead sunbather 00:01:56.801 --> [endTime] which you're actually forget about it
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