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Texas EOC English 2: 2.5 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres 169 Views


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

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brought to you by pocket change We change ours as

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much as our socks You know growth i share the

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following passage Okay robert like fierceness encouraged me Yeah All

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right Well which of the following is the best definition

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of the word strategy And here the pencil and grab

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him Okay way may not know what strategy means but

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a little context goes a long way A quick skim

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of the sense in which the word appears gives us

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pretty much everything we need right here He unhesitatingly refused

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my request and told me this was another stratagem by

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which to escape Who think we're seeing the word strategy

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in there somewhere Option c isn't an option at all

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Master thomas isn't accusing douglas of writing out escape plans

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We get the feeling that douglas is too smart to

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put his getaway plan on paper We'll also eliminate choice

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Be master thomas is worried about something a lot more

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specific than douglas thoughts and beliefs about escaping Chances are

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those aren't too hard to figure out their people Okay

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we're getting warmer with answer day but it's still not

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Quite right Structure and outline our little too vague Master

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thomas's responding specifically to douglas request toe work to make

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extra money Master tea is no slouch and knows right

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away that this is part of douglas plan to save

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up enough moolah to make his getaway Wait did we

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say plan Well yes we did That must mean a

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is the right answer Another clue here is that stratagem

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sounds a lot like yeah the word's strategy which can

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also mean a plan of course of action Okay got

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to go meet devise a strategy emma's tow How weaken

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Grab the last doughnut from the break room Yeah go 00:01:54.663 --> [endTime] under cover

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