New Jersey NJSLA-Adaptive ELA Grade 8 Practice Questions - New Jersey Student Learning Assessments-Adaptive English Language Arts - Grade 8 Exam

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Read the passage: In chapter one, the narrator describes Aunt Ruth as "gentle as candlelight." In chapter seven, after the bank threatens to foreclose on her home, the same narrator calls her "a wall of broken glass." The shift in figurative description most directly reflects what?

Aunt Ruth's circumstances have changed her behavior. The narrator forgot the earlier description. Aunt Ruth was always secretly cruel. The story changes narrators between chapters.

Correct Answer:

Aunt Ruth's circumstances have changed her behavior.

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