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CAHSEE ELA 7.4 Characteristics. Which of the following best describes the narrator?

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00:02

Here's an unshmoopy question you may find on your exam...

00:12

But first go ahead and hit pause... this passage is probably a sight for sore eyes...

00:17

Which of the following BEST describes the narrator?

00:20

And here are the potential answers:

00:25

Okay, so this question is asking us to make a judgment call.

00:28

The narrator isn't going to come right out and say, "I'm respectful!" or "I'm melodramatic!"

00:34

We're going to have to piece together the clues and solve this case on our own.

00:37

Let's take 'em one by one.

00:39

Is the narrator... happy?

00:41

If she is, she has a funny way of showing it. All she does is express her disappointment

00:45

and frustration... so we can be certain she isn't smiling from ear to ear.

00:50

Respectful? Uh, no. She's giving the subject of this narration about as much respect as

00:55

Rodney Dangerfield used to get.

01:01

Caring? Well, she certainly seems to care about complaining. But... in the sense that

01:06

we usually think about "caring?" Nope. Well, then by process of elimination it looks

01:12

like we're left with "melodramatic."

01:14

If we weren't entirely sure what that word meant...

01:17

...we could hopefully spot the "dramatic" in there.

01:19

Melodramatic means "exaggerated" or "overemotional."

01:23

Yep. Describes the speaker to a T.

01:25

Our answer is D.

01:26

As in, "Drama queen."

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