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TSI Reading: Which Detail Shows the Author's Bias? 9 Views
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Which detail best shows the author's bias?
(A)The inspiration came to her while she was vacationing with some writer friends.
(B)Her story centered on what happens when science and mortality collide.
(C)In 1818, she finished the story and published it as a horror novel.
(D)Even though that publication is the edition the majority of people read today, it is worth reading the 1818 edition because it is written in the author's original words.
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- 00:02
All right see reading shmoop furs frankenstein coming your way
- 00:05
here Which detail Best shows the author's bias Yeah franken
- 00:13
bias Alright let's skim and we're going to skim quicks
- 00:15
We've read this eighteen times already right Merriman who should
- 00:18
refrain sign someone young debate team fired right became the
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- 00:21
most famous horse or blunt force anyone i haven't going
- 00:23
around rebounded made raven the original words Okay well let's
- 00:27
think about this bias Where does that come from Well
- 00:30
we're scanning the article for bias or some sort of
- 00:32
opinion express by the author But if we hook this
- 00:35
passage upto a lightning rod it with zap straight to
- 00:38
the phrase it is worth reading the eighteen eighteen addition
- 00:42
Like who says shelley's original version is worth the read
- 00:47
the author this claim there may not be merited but
- 00:50
either way it's the author's own opinion interjected in an
- 00:53
otherwise a neutral cold journalistic informational piece meaning when journalism
- 00:57
wasn't biased and marketing for politics Yeah okay loser bowl
- 01:01
Well the fact that shelley wrote frankenstein while on vacation
- 01:04
is just that it's a fact the language police sniffer
- 01:06
dogs would come up dry on this sense either general
- 01:09
summary of the story nor the date it was published
- 01:12
constitutes as opinion either So get rid of b and
- 01:14
c and the answer is d even though that publication
- 01:17
is the addition the majority of people read today it
- 01:20
is worth reading the eighteen eighteen edition because it is
- 01:22
written in the author's original words Okay that's it uh 00:01:26.808 --> [endTime] we're shmoop originally
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