Sentence Structure

Figures of Speech

What does the term "belligerent locks" tell the reader about Amarilly?

A.

She is disrespectful and angry.

B.

She has unruly and curly hair.

C.

She has an unclean appearance.

D.

She is often locked in her room.

Figures of Speech

     Uncle Vern’s clunker was heard well before it was seen coming down the hill to our house. The once classic 1963 Buick Skylark was now a sputtering, screaming rust-bucket, but Uncle Vern was still so proud of it. It was the first car he bought with his own money, and he could not give the poor thing up for a new car. He didn’t have the money to fix the myriad of problems with the car.
     Every time he visited, he looked at the car all doe-eyed and said, "Ain’t she a beauty, kids? Don’t you wish you had one just like her?" We kids would roll our eyes behind his back and say, "Yeah, Uncle Vern. She’s real special." We never did understand why he called the car a "she" when it was barely worth calling it a car, but he loved that hunk of junk. Mom always made him park it around back when he visited. Uncle Vern just laughed and said, "Good idea! We don’t want anyone to try to steal her."
     Once, he offered to take use for a ride. Mom put her foot down on that. "You can ride around in that death-trap if you want, but don’t you think about putting my babies in that tin can you call a car!" Uncle Vern never offered to drive us in his car again.

64. The phrase "all doe-eyed" means that Uncle Vern looked at the car

A.

lovingly.

B.

carefully.

C.

calmly.

D.

warily.

Connotation and Denotation

     Gael told his father about the wasp nest as soon as he found it. It was in a musty corner of the garage, hanging from a support beam overhead. Gael's father knew just what to do. He knocked it down with a broom and then doused it with water. The wasps flew about in a frenzy. Gael and his father narrowly avoided being stung.
     Later, when Gael returned to the garage, the wasps had disappeared. Gael inspected the tattered remains of the nest. He picked up a piece of what looked like honey-comb. It was made up of five-sided cells, or pentagons. Gael regretted that the wasps had spent so much time building it.
     Gael was so preoccupied with the nest that he didn't hear his father sneak up behind him.
     "Careful," his father said. "You should probably throw that away."
     Gael nodded, but when his father wasn't looking, he put a small piece of the nest in a Ziploc bag. Then he hid the bag under his bed where no one would find it.
     The following morning, Gael thought he heard a noise coming from the bag. It was a soft fluttering sound, like a flag flapping in the wind.
     He got out of bed and reached underneath his bed for the Ziploc bag. What he saw inside the bag was appalling. There were literally hundreds of tiny wasps, swarming the cramped space of the bag. Gael immediately realized what had happened: the pentagon cells of the comb had been full of eggs. And now the eggs had hatched.
65. What does the word narrowly suggest in this story?

A.

Gael and his father are completely safe from the wasps.

B.

The wasps get stuck in a narrow corridor near Gael.

C.

The wasps almost manage to sting Gael and his father.

D.

The garage is too small for Gael and his father to stand.

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