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TSI Reading: The Mongoose Is In the Details: Identifying Characterization 80 Views
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Description:
The details in the passage suggest that Rikki-tikki is
(A)cold-hearted and expressionless
(B)experienced in fighting cobras
(C)overcome with fear and weakness
(D)extremely brave and courageous
Transcript
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Yeah Okay texas reading shmoop ing and people We've got
- 00:06
three questions here in this section We're going to identify
- 00:09
and analyze ideas after reading this excellent paragraph on the
- 00:13
riki tiki jump and all this stuff We're kind of
- 00:16
skimming it as we're mumbling and blabbering here on top
Full Transcript
- 00:19
of all this and we're picking out keywords We read
- 00:22
the first sentence and look for kind of key words
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It stick in our brain and kind of go down
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here and he was breaking up with popular among us
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every time you go on and take your time coming
- 00:30
up again and everything's going good out of everything all
- 00:33
right well there's The first question here which is the
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details in the passage suggest that ricky ticky is ah
- 00:38
what That was named this and especially intimidating Riki tiki
- 00:44
is one bad little beast right Not many humans or
- 00:47
animals willingly jump into battle with cobra's But ricky ticky
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is readyto act seconds after he locks eyes with nag
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and this duel to the death requires bravery and courage
- 00:57
Well we also suspect a surge of natural mongoose adrenaline
- 01:01
in the testosterone and instincts and whatever Well according to
- 01:04
the narrator the snakes are the ones who never changed
- 01:07
their expression and never reveal their game plans Right So
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it's not ricky ticky snakes or cold and expressionless Yeah
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Ah and then reality on the other hand becomes red
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eye during the battle and later chattered with rage The
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narrator admits that an older mongers would have known to
- 01:22
break the snakes back so we can assume ricky hasn't
- 01:25
learned this particular trick yet so he's not that experience
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And finally although reached he's afraid of the snakes and
- 01:30
doesn't think he can fight off to at once Well
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he still battles with no gehna and which takes some
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serious mongoose guts So it's not about overcoming fear and
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weakness right answer is that you just extremely brave and 00:01:42.797 --> [endTime] courageous And maybe a little nuts
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