Texas EOC English 2: 3.3 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
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a coach and horses more dead than alive It's dark
All right yep Bristol by things parlor Can i take
your hand and i prefer to keep them up all
right we'll read the following description from paragraph one Rat
chair Snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest
and added a white crest to the burden he carried
heavy Well the author uses the white crest and the
burden he carried into description about teo Do what And
here the potential answer Okay well if the answer doesn't
jump right out at us it's best to take another
look at the passage is one might trick us that
we don't have a solid memory of what went down
in the first paragraph Yeah well for example choice a
claims that h g wells wants us to feel How
heavy the strangers luggage is huh When we see the
word burden well we might be fooled but the first
sense of the paragraph tells us that the strangers on
li carrying a little black portmanteau well if you didn't
know a portmanteau is kind of suitcase And since this
one's a little guy we know the stranger doesn't have
too much luggage Yes the stranger believes in traveling light
It is perfect All right Options He's Probably right on
some level There's no doubt the stranger is glad to
be in out of the blizzard and eaten some of
mrs hall's famous Now whatever she's famous for over this
is not the reason that wells mentions the strangers burdens
and snowy shoulders H g is up to something cooler
here B isn't a totally ridiculous answer The white crest
of snow does show how miserable the strangers walk from
the train station wass Unless the white crest is dan
drift but get the streams with benefit of the doubt
their thank you head and shoulders Ultimately option d is
the best answer The sentence from the passage reads The
snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest and
added a white crest to the burden he carried Got
it Wells doesn't tell us what the mysterious burden is
so we're basically left toe wonder about this guy's secret
issues even though the title of the novel just kind
of gives away at least one major problem This guy 00:02:32.175 --> [endTime] has right