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CAHSEE ELA 7.1 Characteristics. Which of the following best expresses one of the themes in the previous passage?
CAHSEE ELA Characteristics: Drill 7, Problem 2. Which of the following best describes the narrator's feelings towards her grandparents?
CAHSEE ELA 7.3 Characteristics. Which of the following does not describe an effect of the use of first-person narration in this passage?
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CAHSEE ELA 7.3 Characteristics. Which of the following does not describe an effect of the use of first-person narration in this passage?
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And here's another Shmoop du jour... for you and your... brain.
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First pause and review this passage. Learn it, live it, breathe it.
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Which of the following does NOT describe an effect of the use of first-person narration
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in this passage?
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And here are the potential answers:
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When reading something written in first person, what does that style tell us?
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Well... we're getting the story straight from the horse's mouth, so it tells us a
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lot about... the horse.
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Not so much about the farmer, the pigs, and the cows.
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If we glance at our answer choices, we can see that three of the options relate to the
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narrator...
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A talks about the narrator's feelings, B talks about what the narrator is experiencing,
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and D talks about relating to the narrator.
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C is the only one that brings up the other characters' feelings. So yeah... it's
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the odd one out.
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Our answer is C.
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As in, "Colt."
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