ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos


English I Videos 91 videos

Texas EOC English 1: 1.4 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
196 Views

Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Head over to /video/subjects/test-prep/texas-eoc/texas-eoc-english/ for mor...

See All

Texas EOC English 1: 3.2 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres 2 Views


Share It!


Description:

Texas EOC English 1: 3.2 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres. What does "libation" mean in this passage?

Language:
English Language

Transcript

00:00

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

00:05

jour Brought to you by fancy hotels that kind where

00:09

you even after wear a tie in the shower Yeah

00:12

we've been there It's Not a fun place to stay

00:15

Walton beaumont hotel You reading this thing I know it

00:19

looks The last coin grueling day business branches served an

00:24

ornamental with peaceful sense in walking All right moving on

00:32

in the second The last sentence of the second paragraph

00:35

Right here lie Bai shen means what And hear the

00:39

potential answers Writes an alcoholic drink recreational sport a dessert

00:43

or reading material All right well the context around the

00:46

word will help us figure this one out Let's check

00:49

out the last few sentences of the paragraph right here

00:51

Our depth waitstaff guys got it All right so i

00:56

guess we're supposed to relax and enjoy their live ations

00:59

in a lounge after dinner and they can either do

01:01

this while having an intimate rendezvous is somebody else Or

01:05

while watching some entertainment got to say the william bowman's

01:09

sounding pretty inviting Let's nix choice b first of all

01:13

recreational sports aren't exactly after dinner activities Even the friendliest

01:18

Softball games isn't the best follow up to a steak

01:21

dinner we'll cut answer dia's well reading after dinner is

01:24

nice but an after hours lounge isn't the best place

01:27

to do it That intimate tet a tet might be

01:30

a little less intimate with one person's head stuck in

01:33

a book and then we have choice see which doesn't

01:36

sound totally crazy A little dessert after dinner is a

01:39

good thing sometimes a very good thing over the previous

01:42

since talks about a gourmet dinner in the restaurant so

01:45

we figure that's where the desert is to be had

01:48

The correct answer is a brochure is saying that the

01:50

late night lounge is a great place for an after

01:53

dinner drink that we didn't know the word already in

01:55

the context didn't help A little latin knowledge might come

01:59

in handy on this one The word libation contains the

02:03

latin root lie bat which means to pour the true

02:07

definition is a pouring of wine in honor of a

02:11

deity but these days people also use it when talking

02:15

about any alcoholic beverage or worship deities a lot these

02:18

days with so the hound's ears could change its name

02:22

To the lie bache in lounge If it wanted teo 00:02:25.688 --> [endTime] sound even fancier you called me

Related Videos

Texas EOC English 1: 3.1 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
536 Views

Summarize the main idea of the following selection about women during WWII. 

Texas EOC English 1: 2.7 Understanding and Analysis across Genres
852 Views

Can you find the important difference between "Old Mistresses Apologue" and "Suggested Husbands for Fanny Burney"? Unfortunately, the answer isn't...

Texas EOC English 1: 3.5 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
258 Views

Time to show off your strength like Rosie the Riveter! ....Er....sorry. Not by flexing your arms. That won't help you much with this question. Why...