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Texas EOC English 1: 2.9 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 24 Views


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00:03

Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by making your bed.

00:06

Yes, even that weird top sheet. Okay. [Trying to make bed]

00:10

Check out the following passage...

00:45

Between the beginning and the end of the selection, the tone changes from...what to what? [Asks question]

00:50

And here are the potential answers...

00:58

Tone is the general attitude of a piece.

01:02

Is it light and chipper? [Happy roach]

01:04

Is it dark and depressing? [Sad roach]

01:06

Or does it somehow shift over time?

01:10

Option (A) claims that the passage starts out joyous, or overly happy.

01:14

But we can’t imagine waking up as a cockroach would make anybody all that excited. [Sees self in mirror]

01:19

Unsurprisingly, Gregor doesn’t seem thrilled about his situation.

01:22

So we’ll cross this one off the list. [Smashes mirror]

01:25

(D) might make sense for some people.

01:26

We’d be ticked if we randomly transformed into a bug…or an actual tick.

01:32

Gregor doesn’t seem mad, though. [Giant bug]

01:33

And he definitely never accepts it.

01:35

So option (D) has to go.

01:36

Choice (C) is moving in the right direction, especially with the whole depressed thing.

01:40

Gregor does seem generally depressed about a lot of things.

01:42

But he doesn’t end up being hopeful by the end of the passage. [Trying on shoes]

01:46

Totally understandable.

01:47

It would take a serious optimist to see the bright side in being a bug.

01:50

The correct answer is (B).

01:52

Oddly enough, Gregor doesn’t initially seem too bothered by the fact that he has woken

01:56

up as a cockroach. [TV static]

01:59

He doesn't believe it's true and thinks it’s a hallucination brought on by exhaustion.

02:04

But as the story moves forward, he becomes more worried that it's true. [Screaming woman]

02:08

He becomes almost panicked as his family starts checking on him.

02:11

Once again, proving how hard it can be to live up to our family’s expectations.

02:16

Yes, we know Cousin Bill is a doctor…

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