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Texas EOC English 1: 2.5 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 175 Views
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Texas EOC English 1: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 2, Problem 5
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop douceur
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brought to you by cockroaches if they can survive a
- 00:08
nuclear blast than what The hex in race Yeah one
- 00:13
we'll check the following passage and we've seen it before
- 00:17
Insisting on the awesome language here Misery I'm a salesman
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- 00:22
in germany Never Thank you All right Okay we're done
- 00:30
What type of vermin has greg are turned into and
- 00:33
hear the potential answer Wait said that Easy questions All
- 00:40
right The first paragraph described gregor's new form and it
- 00:43
ain't pretty let's See he has a hard brown shell
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His belly is dome shaped invited by arches into stiff
- 00:48
sections And he also has lots of skinny legs that
- 00:52
wriggle around uncontrollably Well it's going to take more than
- 00:55
plastic surgery to fix this So there's No way he's
- 00:57
a mouse's choice a claims Mice don't have shells and
- 01:00
they do their scurrying with only four legs Cats everywhere
- 01:03
grateful multi legged mice with their own armor would be
- 01:06
way harder to catch our b suggest gregor's a spider
- 01:10
Well more in the right direction But spiders don't have
- 01:12
hard exoskeleton Their bodies are usually pretty squishy And harry
- 01:16
unless they've been hitting the gym steroids all right choices
- 01:21
closest so far centipedes do have many wavy legs and
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their bodies are divided into sections but they aren't dome
- 01:27
shaped Ah not that that makes them any less creak
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The best answer is d cockroaches match all the descriptions
- 01:33
in the passage and along with rats they're pretty much
- 01:36
synonymous with the word vermin until pixar makes a film
- 01:39
about lovable cockroaches trying to make it in the world
- 01:42
Then we'll all have to rethink our misconception Men in 00:01:46.893 --> [endTime] black one too good
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