Writing an Informative Essay about an Exciting Tradition — Unit test
Question 23 • Language Arts 7 A (M12 25/26 S1)
Read the excerpt from an adaptation of "To Build a Fire.”[The dog] experienced a vague but menacing fear that subdued it and made it slink along at the man's heels, hoping that he would go into camp or seek shelter somewhere and build a fire. The dog had learned fire, and it wanted fire, or else to burrow under the snow and cuddle its warmth away from the air.
Answer
A
The first-person narrator reveals the dog’s personality.
B
The first-person narrator encourages readers to connect to the dog.
C
The third-person limited narrator reveals only the factual events of the tale.
D
The third-person omniscient narrator suggests the dog’s superior instincts.
Explanation
The narrator refers to the dog as “it” and describes its private feelings and desires, such as its fear and its wish to find shelter or warmth. That knowledge goes beyond observable events, so the narrator is third-person omniscient. The dog’s instinctive fear of the cold and its desire for fire suggest that its instincts are more reliable than the man’s judgment, making “the third-person omniscient narrator suggests the dog’s superior instincts” the best choice.
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