SBAC ELA High School Practice Questions - Smarter Balanced Grade 11 English Language Arts Literacy Summative Assessment Exam

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A poet writes: "The clock's hands crawled, then sprinted, as the verdict neared." What is the primary effect of contrasting "crawled" with "sprinted"?

It conveys the character's distorted, anxious sense of time It establishes that the clock is mechanically broken It indicates that several days pass during the scene It suggests the character is bored and inattentive

Correct Answer:

It conveys the character's distorted, anxious sense of time

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