EOC Item Types
Sometimes called a multiple-choice item, is a question, problem, or statement that is followed by four answer choices. These questions are worth one point.
Selected Response
Refers to a universal statement about life and/or society that can be discerned from the reading of a text.
Theme
Language that appeals to the senses and allows the reader to experience what the author is describing.
Imagery
An author may reveal a character through the character’s thoughts, words, appearance, and actions or through what other characters say or think.
Character Development
Makes a comparison without a linking word.
Metaphor
Item asks a question, and you provide a response that you construct on your own. These questions are worth two points. Partial credit may be awarded if part of the response is appropriate based upon the prompt and the rubric.
Constructed Response
Includes specific details from the text that support the author’s tone, purpose, characterizations, or central theme.
Textual Evidence
The repetition of terminal sounds in two or more words.
Rhyme
When and where a narrative such as a story, drama, or poem takes place and establishes the context for the literary work.
Setting
Gives human characteristics to nonhuman things.
Personification
Item is a specific type of constructed-response item that requires a longer, more detailed response. These items are worth four points. Partial credit may be awarded if part of the response is appropriate based upon the prompt and the rubric.
Extended Constructed Response
Passages that are fiction, dramas, or poems.
Literary Texts
Refers to the pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
Rhyme Scheme
Characters who often present conflicting or shifting thoughts, actions, and motivations.
Complex Characters
An exaggeration beyond belief.
Hyperbole
Item is located in section one of the ELA EOC. Students are expected to produce an argument or develop an informative or explanatory essay based on information read in two passages. There are three selected-response items and one two-point constructed-response item to help focus the students’ thoughts on the passages and to prepare them for the actual writing task.
Extended Writing Response
An overview of the text that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions.
Objective Summary
Word choices authors use to incorporate specific sounds and the imagery they suggest into a text.
Sound Devices
Literature commonly follows a specific unifying pattern referred to as _______?
Plot
A quirky saying or expression that is specific to a language.
Idiom
Item has a question, problem, or statement. These types of items are worth one or two points. Partial credit may be awarded on two-point items if you select some but not all of the correct answers or if you get one part of the question correct but not the other part.
Technology Enhanced
A form of speech intended to convey the opposite of the actual meaning of the words.
Irony
To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.
Inferences
How the characters see or feel about an event.
Point of View
A statement that initially appears absurd or contradictory but proves true or makes sense when investigated further.
Paradox