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Texas EOC English 2: 4.2 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by haunted houses How do you

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know there's aware wolf in your house All the towels

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smell like wet dog I checked the following passage on

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the yellow wallpaper Fascinating as used in paragraph one Untended

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nted most nearly means what And here the potential answers

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Not tempted All right Well even if we've never seen

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the word untended it'd in our lives we can still

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get this one right All we need is the magic

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of context Clues The first couple of sentences of the

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paragraph Give us all we need Your narrator is saying

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that she and her husband are average ordinary people who

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somehow managed to score a stay in a huge mansion

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The place is so nice that she's suspicious of why

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they were able to stay there she even suspects it

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might be haunted because it seems too good to be

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true It sounds like this story could go the way

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of the shining in any moment But anyway how does

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all this context help us Well two of these answered

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choices claim that the house is in bad shape B

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says it's in poor condition and see says it needs

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maintenance But if the place where he dumped there be

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no mystery as to why the narrator and her husband

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could afford it Whole point is that they got a

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super nice place For a super cheap price which does

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sound a little too good to be true plus we'd

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be prying up floorboards looking for bodies or a well

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maybe we just find another place We'll also nick's option

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A place might be suspiciously cheap but the narrator never

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says anything about it being undesirable again It's a really

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sweet place and she's a maid she's there So by

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little process of elimination we come to d the correct

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answer There's Actually i huge clue in the word itself

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If we know what the word tenant means A tenant

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is someone who rents a living space or commercial space

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right The prefix un means not so untended it'd means

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not tenanted or not rented or inhabited Oh yeah knowing

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the meaning of tenant helps us avoid all that rigmarole

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with contacts Welcome we say life's easier when you know 00:02:03.698 --> [endTime] stuff

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