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Texas EOC English 1: 2.5 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 175 Views


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Texas EOC English 1: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 2, Problem 5

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop douceur

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brought to you by cockroaches if they can survive a

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nuclear blast than what The hex in race Yeah one

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we'll check the following passage and we've seen it before

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Insisting on the awesome language here Misery I'm a salesman

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in germany Never Thank you All right Okay we're done

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What type of vermin has greg are turned into and

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hear the potential answer Wait said that Easy questions All

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right The first paragraph described gregor's new form and it

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ain't pretty let's See he has a hard brown shell

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His belly is dome shaped invited by arches into stiff

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sections And he also has lots of skinny legs that

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wriggle around uncontrollably Well it's going to take more than

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plastic surgery to fix this So there's No way he's

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a mouse's choice a claims Mice don't have shells and

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they do their scurrying with only four legs Cats everywhere

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grateful multi legged mice with their own armor would be

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way harder to catch our b suggest gregor's a spider

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Well more in the right direction But spiders don't have

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hard exoskeleton Their bodies are usually pretty squishy And harry

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unless they've been hitting the gym steroids all right choices

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closest so far centipedes do have many wavy legs and

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their bodies are divided into sections but they aren't dome

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shaped Ah not that that makes them any less creak

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The best answer is d cockroaches match all the descriptions

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in the passage and along with rats they're pretty much

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synonymous with the word vermin until pixar makes a film

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about lovable cockroaches trying to make it in the world

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Then we'll all have to rethink our misconception Men in 00:01:46.893 --> [endTime] black one too good

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