EOC Practice 4

She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but she had to break it off.

This is an example of a(n):

• alliteration

• pun

• hyperbole

• personification

Read the following very short story: “Houston, We Have a Problem” by J. Matthew Zoss.

I’m sorry, but there’s not enough air in here for everyone. I’ll tell them you were a hero.

From the story, we can assume:

• their spacecraft must have been hit by a comet

• they are locked in a bank vault and running out of air

• one person is going to kill the other person

• both characters are going to die in a sunken submarine

Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

After you've tried to say this three times fast, what literary term is this an example of (twice even)?

• hyperbole

• verbal irony

• alliteration

• pun

It is deep autumn

My neighbor

How does he live, I wonder.

What is most likely the meaning of this poem? (Hint: think about the symbolic meaning of autumn)

• The narrator worries about how his neighbor is going to make it through the cold nights

• The narrator is approaching death and is now beginning to concern himself with the welfare of those around him

• The narrator has just realized he knows nothing about his neighbor's life

• The narrator cannot understand how the neighbor is still alive.

•Read the following quote from Anthem:

"The first blow of the lash felt as if our spine had been cut in two."

What is the quote and example of?

• alliteration & hyperbole

• metaphor & simile

• hyperbole & metaphor

• simile & hyperbole

Read the following excerpt from Memories by Marya Zaturensky:

From “Spinners”

Here in this alien crowd I walk apart

Clasping remembered beauty to my heart!

What is the meaning of the phrase “clasping remembered beauty”?

• imagining future events

• recalling past events

• creating current events

• forgetting past events

Read this short story by Richard Brautigan:

"It is hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play the violin." That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.

Based on this story, what is most likely to happen next?

• the police will arrest the man for disturbance of the peace

• the police will suggest an apartment for her to move to

• the woman will go to jail

• the police will fine the man for playing too loudly

Read the following passage from Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"

Pakhom went on running, his soaking shirt and trousers stuck to him and his mouth parched. His breast was working like a blacksmith's bellows, his heart was beating like a hammer, and his legs were giving way as if they did not belong to him. Pakhom was seized with terror lest he should die of the strain.

What is the mood of this passage?

• joyful

• panicked

• exuberated

• exasperated

Read the following quote:

“Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.”

― Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen

What literary device is used in this quote?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Foreshadowing

• Theme

“’The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don’t die of it…’

Poor father! Of what then did you die?”

-Night by Elie Wiesel

This is an example of:

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical Question

• Personification

• Imagery