Question 33 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 11 B
This is not working out. It strikes me that EXIT signs would look to a native speaker of Latin like red-lit signs that say HE LEAVES. I would yield to the urge to bolt for the door ahead of them if I could know that bolting for the door is what the men in this room would see. DeLint is murmuring something to the tennis coach. Sounds of keyboards, phone consoles as the door is briefly opened, then firmly shut. I am alone among administrative heads.
Answer
T
The voice is objective because it relates the events of the story with emotion.
T
The voice is objective because it relates the events of the story without commentary.
T
The voice is subjective because it relates the events of the story without an opinion.
T
The voice is subjective because it relates the events of the story with emotion.
Explanation
The narrator uses first-person language (“I am alone”) and shares personal thoughts and feelings, such as wanting to bolt for the door and imagining what others would see. That emotional commentary makes the voice subjective. Choice D correctly describes a subjective voice that relates events with emotion; an objective voice would report events without the narrator’s personal reaction.
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