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Texas EOC English 2: 2.2 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres 176 Views
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- 00:00
Thank you And here's your shmoop du jour brought to
- 00:05
you by master thomas with a name like master one
- 00:09
guy probably is kind of a jerk All right turn
- 00:11
the following passage from life of frederick douglass and master
- 00:18
six dollars you felt with a pretty honorable robert thirty
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- 00:25
eight stratagem exhorted Okay we're done well Read the following
- 00:31
sentence from paragraph two right here right here This one
- 00:34
He exhorted me to content myself and be obedient Uh
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which of the following is the best synonym for the
- 00:43
word exhorted All right we'll hear the potential answers All
- 00:47
right warned er general Okay Don't know the meaning of
- 00:51
the word exhort toe Join the club We're not context
- 00:54
clues or there to guide the way d is probably
- 00:57
the easiest choice to eliminate So we'll just start there
- 01:00
Okay Sometimes it's alright to do the easy things first
- 01:02
Anyway this one's not hard to next because promised doesn't
- 01:06
fit in the sentence All we'd have to do is
- 01:08
substitute promised for exhorted and it's Pretty obvious Well he
- 01:13
promised me to content myself and be obedient Uh he
- 01:17
promised me what What kind of sense does that make
- 01:20
None all right option c doesn't work either It might
- 01:24
fit in the context of the sentence but it doesn't
- 01:26
fit in the context of the passage as a whole
- 01:29
Master thomas might be a slave owner but douglas never
- 01:32
says anything about him Raising his voice for say is
- 01:34
a little trickier to eliminate than the previous two options
- 01:37
warned works in the context of the sentence and the
- 01:41
passage let's see what the other option is before we
- 01:43
decide to nix it here So uh be suggests urged
- 01:48
which also works tough one but ultimately be is the
- 01:51
best answer or the better answer among these two alright
- 01:54
warned is a stronger word than urged since it has
- 01:58
the connotation that master thomas threatened douglas master thomas isn't
- 02:03
exactly the nicest guy in the world right But for
- 02:05
the most part he's trying to rationalize with this slave
- 02:07
instead of threatening douglas with torture or something so urged
- 02:11
is a safer bet Actually it's a super safe bed
- 02:13
since we happen to know that to exhort means ready
- 02:17
to encourage strongly or to urge someone to do something
- 02:21
Yeah we could have just said that at the beginning
- 02:23
But then we wouldn't have gotten to spend all this 00:02:25.303 --> [endTime] quality time with master tea
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