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CAHSEE ELA 7.3 Characteristics
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CAHSEE ELA 7.3 Characteristics. Which of the following does not describe an effect of the use of first-person narration in this passage?

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And here's another Shmoop du jour... for you and your... brain.

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First pause and review this passage. Learn it, live it, breathe it.

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Which of the following does NOT describe an effect of the use of first-person narration

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in this passage?

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And here are the potential answers:

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When reading something written in first person, what does that style tell us?

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Well... we're getting the story straight from the horse's mouth, so it tells us a

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lot about... the horse.

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Not so much about the farmer, the pigs, and the cows.

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If we glance at our answer choices, we can see that three of the options relate to the

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narrator...

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A talks about the narrator's feelings, B talks about what the narrator is experiencing,

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and D talks about relating to the narrator.

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C is the only one that brings up the other characters' feelings. So yeah... it's

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the odd one out.

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Our answer is C.

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As in, "Colt."

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