MCAP Grade 8 ELA Practice Questions - Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program English Language Arts - Grade 8 Exam

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Read the excerpt from 'The Forge of Echoes': Fourteen-year-old Thomas held his breath as the glowing iron ingot was pulled from the furnace of the Baltimore foundry... Thomas gripped his tongs tighter, carefully aligning the raw iron edge. He realized that surviving his apprenticeship—and mastering the craft—required patience rather than sheer brute force. Which statement best describes the narrative point of view in this passage and its effect on the reader?

First-person limited, allowing the reader to experience events directly through Thomas's personal journal entries. Third-person limited, focusing on Thomas's inner thoughts, physical sensations, and personal realization. Third-person omniscient, providing detailed inner thoughts for both Thomas and Master Smith Vance equally. Second-person, addressing the reader directly to place them in the role of the foundry apprentice.

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Third-person limited, focusing on Thomas's inner thoughts, physical sensations, and personal realization.

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