Question 7 • CCPS GSE Language Arts Grade 8 (23.01300) YL IC
Read the sentence from “Broken Chain.”His father had come home that evening from a softball game, happy that his team had drilled four homers in a thirteen-to-five bashing of Color Tile.Which type of descriptive language is used in the sentence?
Answer
A
a vivid verb describing what the father's team did
B
a graphic adjective describing how the father feels
C
a simile comparing the father's team to Color Tile's team
D
a metaphor comparing the color of the evening sky to tile