Texas EOC English 1: 1.4 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres

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