Georgia Milestones American Literature EOC reading informational and argumentative texts overview quiz quiz

One study surveyed 500 people

Volunteering benefits the volunteer as much as the community it serves

The author volunteered once

Volunteering

The central idea is the main point as a sentence; a detail is a fact or example that proves it

Details are always longer

The central idea is always the first sentence

There is none

The position the writer wants you to accept

A direct quotation

An opposing view

The supporting statistic

Judge whether the evidence is relevant and whether there is enough of it to support the claim

Check the spelling

Count the words

Find the longest sentence

A counterclaim

A statistic

Logos only

Ethos (and pathos): the speaker's credibility through shared experience, plus emotion

Listing all the devices in the text

Naming the device

Quoting the whole paragraph

Explaining how the choice advances the author's purpose and affects the reader

A direct quotation

A guess from outside knowledge

A conclusion the text supports through evidence and reasoning, though it is not stated outright

The title of the passage

Answering Part B first and ignoring Part A

Choosing any related sentence in Part B

Picking the longest sentence

The Part B sentence must actually support the Part A inference; the parts must lock together

A sentence from a different text

The most explicit, most directly relevant line that proves the point

Any sentence about the topic

The first sentence of the passage

They agree on everything

They discuss unrelated subjects

They share a topic (city transport spending) but reach opposing recommendations

They have the same author

Counting how many times a word appears

Summarizing each text separately

Making one point that accounts for both texts together, supported by evidence from each

Using only the first text

Because one text is never enough words

Because the writing response is source-based on two passages, so synthesis feeds directly into the essay

To make the test longer

To test typing speed