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TSI Reading: How Word Choice Helps Define a Text's Setting 17 Views
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Which of the following phrases helps the reader understand the setting of the passage?
(A)It has not been customary heretofore, nor will it be hereafter
(B)it appears that I should say a word or two in reply
(C)our reliance has been placed in support of free government
(D)you and the brave army of which you are a part
Transcript
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Okay see reading the shmoop proves Here we go The
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second question of two in the military thank you Note
- 00:08
Which of the following phrases helps the reader understand the
- 00:11
setting of the passage All right so it's good that
- 00:18
we skimmed it here because we can kind of zip
Full Transcript
- 00:20
through here We'll remember Setting does not exclusively refer to
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place right We're thinking geography here allowed but it might
- 00:27
be a intellectual place or a heaven on something like
- 00:30
that Time also matters time is a setting when there's
- 00:34
no action as in this passage addiction or the wards
- 00:37
the author uses help us decide when the passage was
- 00:41
written right but no one uses here to four on
- 00:44
a regular basis anymore Although think mtv cribs says that
- 00:48
heretofore lebron shall be that no one we know anyway
- 00:51
does that so we can safely assume that this passage
- 00:54
was written in the i asked so it's the answer's
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a here right It has not been customary here to
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four nor will it be hereafter So the setting is
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an old world like nineteenth century kind of world and
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the other things are well all examples of extremely formal
- 01:10
text but they don't use the ancient archaic language that
- 01:15
gives away the date of the peace Right B is
- 01:17
just it appears that i should say a word or
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two and reply or see is our alliance has been
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placed in support of free government Or are you in
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the brave army of which you are apart We have
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formal but it's not with the key word here to 00:01:28.888 --> [endTime] four So that's it It's a
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