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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 8.5 Literary Devices. Which of the following statements least accurately describes an aside?

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This probably won't be the shmoopiest question you've ever heard in your life...

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Which of the following statements LEAST accurately describes an aside?

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And here are the potential answers:

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OK, so these questions are actually nice learning tools because we know that THREE of the answers

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are going to be correct...ish and generally descriptive of what an 'aside' is...

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One strategy to figure them out is to just read all of the choices, figure out which

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3 are most alike and then pick... whatever's left. Or... the least likely. Got it?

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OK, so what IS an aside, anyway? Well, if we didn't know, we'd guess it's the

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French fries, not the burger.

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If we read A, B, and C carefully, they all sound pretty plausible.

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Yeah - we could see Tevye or Jean Valjean havin' a chat with Pauline in the front row.

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It could reveal stuff about the character and... sure, it could be funny. Why not?

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But then there's D...

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How could an aside - or really any comment - NOT reveal something about the main character?

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Just doesn't make sense. Couldn't happen.

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So... D is false, or least likely.

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As in, "Do You Hear the People Sing?"

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