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PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic. The main purpose of the first two paragraphs is to...what?
PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?
PSAT 1.3 Writing Diagnostic. To make the paragraph most logical, sentence 2 in the second paragraph should be placed...where?
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PSAT 1.4 Reading Diagnostic. In the fourth paragraph, the author checks his chronometer against the timepieces of other ships in order to...what?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by anchors Some ships would achieve
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much more fame and success if it wasn't for these
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things of dragging them down Check the passage happen captain
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snark fall maybe division have god's only few buckets One
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little papa is always angry I'll be with you now
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it's a poor condition favorite time of the bds movement
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chronometer from fourteen days Steamer compromise our way with that
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annoying thing Okay in the fourth paragraph the author checks
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his chronometer against the time pieces of other ships in
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order to what and here in potential answers i mean
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All right how many meters do we really need Oh
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nam inner barometer thermometer tomato meter And now we're throwing
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something called a chronometer into the mix The question is
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why is our narrator checking his chronometer against the time
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pieces of other ships Really that bored Well let's think
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about what this passenger's been talking about Our narrator has
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been pounding it into our skulls that he's surrounded by
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incompetent boobs who can barely tell the north star from
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the moon Well if he's double checking the equipment could
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it be that he doesn't trust the navigator's on board
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his own shift Make sure that everything's on the up
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and up well let's take a look at our answer
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choices option a suggest that the author is demonstrating that
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he had the finest timepiece available at the time Yeah
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probably not He doesn't seem to be in a very
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bragging mood especially not with regard to anything snark related
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and we don't see the word rolex engraved on the
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side of his phenomena are either so we're guessing he's
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probably not in the possession of a luxury item timepiece
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in something We're going to go ahead and trim a
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sales next up See is our author catching his captain
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in a lie and then dismissing him Well yeah but
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it's not the reason He's comparing the timepiece is it's
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just a night A little more than anything He wants
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to get where he's going after that any humiliation he
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can inflict on his crewmates is just gravy What about
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is he finding out the exact location of the snark
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at that moment But i'm not sure why he need
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a chronometer when he could just look at a nearby
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sign Yeah he's not at sea When he checks the
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chronometer he mentions he's in port on the fijian island
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of suva So he really doesn't need some fancy shmancy
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device to tell him where he is We're gonna make
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me walk the plank The correct answer is b is
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ensuring that his navigational readings are accurate That pretty much
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aligned with the conclusion we came to despite all the
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petty wisecracks about his idiot crew members are narrator just
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wants to do his job well and not spend the
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rest of his life going in circles in the middle 00:02:43.333 --> [endTime] of the ocean
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