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CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?
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CAHSEE ELA 6.2 Passage Drill 184 Views
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See if you can figure out what feeling the words "rejected", "dismisses", and "shame" suggest in the passage from Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. If you can't, we'll help you. All this self-reliance stuff is overrated. Teamwork, that's where it's at!
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Sorry and here's your smoke du jour brought to you
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by independent thinkers It took them forever to agree on
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which i'm up here We're sending you all right We'll
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check out the following passage Shmoop the face is bashful
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Sleepy stop Okay the words rejected dismisses and shame in
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paragraph to suggest a feeling of what and hear the
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pendulum in this paragraph emerson is basically talking about how
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it sucks when we're afraid to share a good idea
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and that it sucks even worse when someone who isn't
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afraid to share gets all the credit for the idea
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later on it's kind of like how we first thought
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of the idea of putting low quality cheese in a
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pressurized can but due to our lack of confidence we
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now have to watch the makers of easy cheese the
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cheese will choice be suggests that the word love captures
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the feeling of shame once we've rejected our own idea
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good one that love can't cause feelings of shame but
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let's all take a second to think of an example
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of that from our birth Well that was depressing Oh
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are something more specific like when we asked janey to
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the homecoming in seventh grade by writing our request in
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giant letters made of toothpaste on her driveway and she
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said knowing then asked us to come over and scrape
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all the toothpaste off with a toothbrush while she and
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josh were inside drinking smoothies Yeah that would be an
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example But what point is that Love is definitely not
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what emerson's going for in this paragraph choice b is
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off the table Meanwhile choice See Never deserved to be
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on the table to begin with There's Nothing easy about
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watching somebody else get all the glory of your ideas
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Option d gets all morbid on us and says that
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emerson is talking about death Well this is taking it
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too far Emerson is definitely trying to get across that
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it's not super fun to watch somebody bask in your
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glory but he doesn't compare it tio dying although when
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we saw somebody had marketed that dazzler before us way
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did feel like crawling into a grave Okay answer a
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is the only one that comes close to picking up
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what emerson is putting down What ralph waldo is trying
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to capture is this sense of regret that comes along
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with not sharing our good idea when we had a
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chance way no this feeling all too well Every time
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we walk into a room with likeable wallpaper it just 00:02:32.375 --> [endTime] cuts like a knife Tasty
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