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CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?
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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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Reading: Word Analysis, Problem 1. What does the word ignoble mean?
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoopy word du jour...
- 00:06
Henry accused Eliza of being ignoble because she didn't... talk good English.
- 00:11
What does the word ignoble mean?
- 00:14
And here are the potential answers:
- 00:20
So... what is this question asking?
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- 00:23
Well, most of us can guess that noble means royal...high end...
- 00:26
...or at least something ... good. So it's really a question of what that 'ig' means.
- 00:30
Like ig...what?
- 00:32
Is ig good or bad?
- 00:34
It's the first two letters in the name Igor... and in a lot of horror films Igor was the
- 00:39
henchman of the villain -- so... maybe uh... not good.
- 00:42
And this isn't a bad place to begin because ig is a prefix that means... NOT.
- 00:48
So if something is ignoble, it's NOT kingly or queenly.
- 00:54
So in this answer group, B and C are... goodly things...
- 00:58
D is just kinda random -- doesn't fit the sentence.
- 01:01
The best answer is clearly A -- of a lower social status.
- 01:05
Like... a low number of likes on facebook. You get the idea.
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