As I carried the last of the boxes full of the legal papers outside, I tripped. The lid flew up in the air, and the
mocking breeze caught the papers one by one in slow
motion, holding each one up in front of me before whisking
it away into the street like confetti.
Which sentence describes the effect of the figurative language in this
passage?
A. The action is described in terms of slow motion, like a film,
B. The breeze is described as having the personality of a jokester.
C. The verb whisk suggests an action of cleaning.
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D. The comparison to confetti shows that the incident was no big
deal.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.