EOC Item Types
Key Terms
Key Terms Continued
Elements of Literature
Figurative Language
100

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

100

Refers to a universal statement about life and/or society that can be discerned from the reading of a text.

Theme

100

Language that appeals to the senses and allows the reader to experience what the author is describing.

Imagery

100

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

100

Makes a comparison without a linking word.

Metaphor

200

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

200

Includes specific details from the text that support the author’s tone, purpose, characterizations, or central theme.

Textual Evidence

200

The repetition of terminal sounds in two or more words.

Rhyme

200

When and where a narrative such as a story, drama, or poem takes place and establishes the context for the literary work.

Setting

200

Gives human characteristics to nonhuman things.

Personification

300

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

300

Passages that are fiction, dramas, or poems.

Literary Texts

300

Refers to the pattern of end rhymes in a poem.

Rhyme Scheme

300

Characters who often present conflicting or shifting thoughts, actions, and motivations.

Complex Characters

300

An exaggeration beyond belief.

Hyperbole

400

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

400

An overview of the text that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions.

Objective Summary

400

Word choices authors use to incorporate specific sounds and the imagery they suggest into a text.

Sound Devices

400

Literature commonly follows a specific unifying pattern referred to as _______?

Plot

400

A quirky saying or expression that is specific to a language.

Idiom

500

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

500

A form of speech intended to convey the opposite of the actual meaning of the words.

Irony

500

To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.

Inferences

500

How the characters see or feel about an event.

Point of View

500

A statement that initially appears absurd or contradictory but proves true or makes sense when investigated further.

Paradox