Virginia EOC Reading literary texts overview quiz quiz
13questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.
Which is the best statement of a theme, rather than a topic or a moral?
On the EOC, what does a literary device question usually reward beyond naming the device?
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
A story opens at a dramatic later moment, then flashes back to earlier events. What is the usual effect?
What is the climax of a plot?
What is indirect characterization?
A story uses 'I' and reports only the narrator's own thoughts. What point of view is this?
To track how a character changes, what should an EOC answer do?
Why is it useful to paraphrase a poem before answering questions?
What is the effect of a repeated refrain in a poem, such as a line at the end of each stanza?
A recurring 'cracked and weathered door' in a story most likely functions as what device?
What device gives non-human things human qualities, as in 'the wind whispered'?
What is the difference between theme (in fiction) and central idea (in nonfiction)?