Texas EOC English 1: 1.4 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
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Texas EOC English I | Understanding and Analysis Across Genres |
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by now All right We're just skimming on and then
i want weapons thing Okay In line to pre varick
eight means what And here the potential answers and we
don't see do something before barricading Not on there Okay
well if we take blinds two and three into account
the context makes it hard to miss the meaning of
prevaricate The speaker is telling the dying person that he's
going to be totally honest even if other people tell
the dying person that he or she is going to
be all right The speaker isn't gonna sugar coat anything
when he says stuff like there is no escape for
you It's pretty clear that uh well what he means
no escape Let's start by eliminating choice b hesitate and
pre varick eight rhyme but that's where the similarities and
if we substituted this choice in for pre varick aid
the meaning of the poem would change Yeah the speaker's
not hesitating to be honest but that's not what we're
going for here and the jury's out on whether he
ought to be hesitating before he's so brutally honest with
option d comprehend doesn't fit Either thiss would imply that
the speaker doesn't understand something but he totally gets everything
that's going down Somebody he loves is dying and he
feels it's his job to tell the dying person the
cold hard facts Well if we plug choice see into
the mix that it makes it sound like the speaker
doesn't want to hear what others have to say this
disc with kind of hypocrite would he be if he
couldn't take hearing the truth from others Well the best
answer is option A This true even though pre varick
eight doesn't always mean toe lie exactly Sometimes it references
when a person kind of talks around an issue deliberately
misleading someone else but like who are we kidding That
flying teo point is our speaker doesn't do any of
this he's painfully honest no matter what way can't decide
whether or not that we want this guide our death