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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 3, Problem 2
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke to
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use your brought to you by summer vacations Hopefully your
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a c works All right we're skimming quickly because well
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we probably read this eighteen times Now we're just done
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skimming the skim skim skim along with you and then
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- 00:21
stop The narrator uses the phrase the height of romantic
- 00:25
felicity in the second sense of the paragraph one right
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there to refer to what and hear the potential answers
- 00:32
manicure ability All right let's get some vocab straight before
- 00:37
we jump into this one First the word felicity means
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deliriously happy which is also how a certain subset of
- 00:46
the population feels while secretly binging watching the show felicity
- 00:50
on netflix but that's a separate issue So now that
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we know what felicity means we might be tempted to
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go with option d The narrator does go on and
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on about how great the houses but saying that it's
- 01:02
everything she hoped for a bit of a stretch i
- 01:05
often see misses the mark too Sure the narrator thinks
- 01:07
the house is cool but she doesn't specifically praise her
- 01:11
husband's house hunting abilities Plus if you were so great
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at it Well we didn't really see an animal on
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house hunters by now right Not so much All right
- 01:20
a little more Vocab knowledge helps us to eliminate choice
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b is true that the narrator uses the word romantic
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but she means that a little differently than we might
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immediately think Usually when we hear this word it's referring
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to something related to love and romance like a candlelit
- 01:35
dinner walk on the beach or tax rebate people are
- 01:39
weird in just trust us we are The thing is
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is that the narrator doesn't say anything about being all
- 01:47
that in love with her husband In fact he's such
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a jerk to her there's a pretty good chance that
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relationship is on the rocks make that a really good
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change Well there's always matched that we can always use
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the word romantic when we're talking about something that's highly
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idealized or something that's similar in style to the artistic
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movement romanticism Knowing this leads us directly to the correct
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answer option A romanticism is a genre that among other
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things doesn't mind getting fantastical and or horrific so this
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connects with the idea of the house being haunted Basically
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the narrator is saying that she'll be deliriously happy if
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the house is in fact haunted but she knows it's
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too much for this lady has obviously never seen a
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horror movie That's actually scary let's See how she feels 00:02:35.61 --> [endTime] after watching the ring Yeah
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