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TSI Reading: Defining the Colloquial Term "Dismasted" in Context 72 Views
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Description:
When the sailor mentions that Captain Ahab was "dismasted" in line 18, to what is he referring?
(A)Someone in Ahab's family had died.
(B)Captain Ahab has only one leg.
(C)The boat Ahab was taking crashed.
(D)None of the crew knew why Ahab was so gloomy.
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Yeah Naive vast yeah Maybes We're reading stuff Allah shmoop
- 00:08
so here we go We've got a five question passage
- 00:11
here Pirates and ships people in a captain let's do
- 00:14
a quick skin here and then we'll jump to the
- 00:16
first question Well you look like a man cut away
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- 00:18
from the stake when the fire's overrun and wasted all
- 00:21
the limbs without consuming them are taking away one particle
- 00:24
from their compacted age robustness Boy this guy can write
- 00:27
so power of later the whole grimm aspect of a
- 00:29
have affect me livid brand new street in her moment
- 00:32
grimness I was dismasted off japan but like his dismasted
- 00:37
crafty shifted yet so they talk back then it was
- 00:40
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- 00:45
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- 00:47
while We know you'll think of shmoop all right Question
- 00:50
one when the sailor mentions that captain ahab was dismasted
- 00:54
in line eighteen what's he referring to or else go
- 00:58
to eighteen there while i was describing him write it
- 01:00
had previously come to me that this ivory leg had
- 01:03
etc been fashion from the polished bone of the sperm
- 01:06
whale's Jaw i he was dismasted off japan said a
- 01:10
shipmate once but like his dismasted craft he shipped another
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mass without coming home for it He has a quivering
- 01:19
what does that mean Well four mast our main mast
- 01:22
or mizzen mast Yeah a ship has a bunch of
- 01:25
masks You know our giant post that hold up the
- 01:28
sails That's these things that thing right there that's a
- 01:31
mast it's not past tense of master It makes sense
- 01:34
then that when the crew member states that a have
- 01:37
was dismasted well he's using sailor speak to tell us
- 01:41
that captain may have lost one of his support beams
- 01:44
I e a leg context also wins a hand here
- 01:47
leg as the narrator has just finished describing a habit
- 01:51
massive ivory leg which makes us think he only has
- 01:54
one of the flesh and bone variety Got it So
- 01:57
the answer is b captain has only one leg and
- 02:01
the loser ones here Well there's no reference to a
- 02:03
happy family in the past Injuries not this one And
- 02:05
even though a halves boat may have crashed see thus
- 02:09
smashing a real mast The sailors referring to the ivory
- 02:12
leg fashion from us sperm whales job the sailor even
- 02:15
mentions that has a whole slew of them in case
- 02:18
his peg leg ever gets lost or stuck in the
- 02:20
mud or something You know losing a leg would be
- 02:22
enough to make anyone cranky which the sailors must get
- 02:25
because they tend to steer clear of there Captain So 00:02:28.095 --> [endTime] that's It won a have one leg I stop
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