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CAHSEE ELA 8.1 Literary Devices
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CAHSEE ELA 8.1 Literary Devices. What effect is achieved by using a flashback?

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CAHSEE ELA 8.2 Literary Devices
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CAHSEE ELA 8.2 Literary Devices. Which of the following is a characteristic of a soliloquy?

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CAHSEE ELA 8.3 Literary Devices
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CAHSEE ELA 8.3 Literary Devices. What is the best way to describe a character foil?

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CAHSEE ELA 8.4 Literary Devices. How does the use of the word foreshadowing help a reader better understand the plot?

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We're foreshadowing some foreshadowing for this question...

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How does the use of the word foreshadowing help a reader better understand the plot?

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And here are the potential answers:

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The movie we're watching opens with a shot of a meteor in space... then cut to the White House...

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...and... we know the plot of the whole movie.

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So... what is this question asking?

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It's a vocab question on the word 'foreshadowing' -- and if we didn't know the meaning, we

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could break it up a bit and most likely figure it out.

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Note the first 4 letters -- fore -- like in golf, not the number.

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Ouch.

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Fore is kissin' cousins with BEFORE, and we see it other places... like on a boat.

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Aft...

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...and fore.

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And there's forehead, foreboding, foreground... all things that are "ahead" or "before."

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Okay... next we have shadow...

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...so... it's like we're seeing the shadow of something before it appears...

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So... our answer is pretty clearly A.

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As in, "Armageddon II: The World Ends... Again."

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