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Texas EOC English 1: 1.4 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
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Texas EOC English 1: 1.2 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 196 Views


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

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jour brought to you by desert islands If we could

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only take one thing to a desert island you'd be

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a vote that's the whole point Alright Antonia sebastian antonio

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spastic you done reading way scam We skimmed but and

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yet we're done All right The conversation in this excerpt

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has all of the following effects except what and hear

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the potential answers claire about Okay well there are no

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tricks here We simply have to do a close read

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of the passage with the answer choices in mind Don't

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feel bad if it takes a couple passes Understand this

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shakespearean text It's easy Get bogged down in william's verbiage

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But we can actually use these answer choices as guide

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post And we have a whole section on shakespeare ege

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mob Tons of stuff for you to go look at

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including a shakespeare translated You really kind of cool it

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All right Looking for these particular conversation points can help

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us to understand what antonio and sebastian are plotting Well

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let's begin by nixing choice eh Well antonio very clearly

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asked sebastian who the aired in naples is And sebastian

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very clearly says that it's clarabell hey look at shakespeare

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being straightforward for one's Thank you bill Option d is

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easy to eliminate as well Maybe we're giving shakespeare too

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hard a time Sebastian recalls that antonio supplanted or sneakily

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replaced his brother prospero And antonio agrees he's like yep

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Best thing i ever did was kicking that guy off

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my throne Look how awesome my clothes are now Well

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that's just what he says Anyway shakespearean All right i

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should see will be the last to go Sebastian declares

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that he's going to take naples the same way that

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antonio took milan by the sword Well nothing like plotting

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a violent coup to get these too excited All right

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well the correct answer is b the one thing that

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antonio and sebastian don't seem All that concerned about is

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this mysterious desert island on which they're shipwrecked Let's hope 00:02:01.8 --> [endTime] there's a smoke

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