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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 3, Problem 2
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Texas EOC English 2: 3.1 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres. After reading the passage, tell us how the visitor's manners and way of speaking could best be described.
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- 00:04
Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the invisible man....
- 00:29
The visitor's manners and way of speaking can best be described as —what?
- 00:35
And here are the potential answers... [Answers appear]
- 00:37
All right, so what do we know about our strange visitor? [Outline of person in snowy forest]
- 00:42
Let’s go through the answer choices and see which one best matches the weird guy we
Full Transcript
- 00:47
meet in the passage.
- 00:48
Option (A) claims he’s outgoing and enthusiastic.
- 00:51
However, Mrs. Hall would probably disagree. [Man in bandages and Mrs Hall appears]
- 00:54
For example, when she asks him to take off his drippy coat, he just says, “No,” without
- 00:59
even turning around.
- 01:00
So yeah it’s safe to safe this guy’s not in the market for new friends.
- 01:05
Choice (B) takes it a little far though. [Stranger in fire]
- 01:07
The stranger isn’t outright angry and hateful.
- 01:09
It’s not like he breaks stuff, or insults Mrs. Hall’s taste in decorating. [Stranger throws object through a window]
- 01:18
Some might argue that answer (D) is the way to go.
- 01:20
The first thing the stranger does when he enters the inn is demand that a fire be built, [Stranger enters inn]
- 01:25
which we could say is kinda rude.
- 01:27
We can forgive him a little bit, though.
- 01:28
He is coming in from a long walk in a hardcore snowstorm. [Man hiking]
- 01:32
We might be a little demanding if we were freezing to death.... [Man shivering covered in ice]
- 01:45
Choice (C) is the best answer.?
- 01:47
The strangers short answers to Mrs. Hall and demands for a fire are best described as distant
- 01:53
and abrupt.
- 01:54
He’s not a total jerk; he’s just not all that good of a communicator.
- 01:57
And he’s also invisible.
- 01:59
Probably.
- 02:00
We can kind of assume that he's invisible, right? [Stranger disappears]
- 02:04
He's invisible.
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