Figurative Language
Writing

Layout of the EOC
What to do or not to do
Miscellaneous
100

The bow shyly as wet swans.

What is a simile?

100

This is the number of constructed responses you are required to write on the English II EOC.

What is 4?

100

This is the number of poems on the English II EOC.

What is one?

100

The number of reading texts and multiple choice questions you should focus on at a time?

What is one at a time?

100

The NC English II EOC is this percentage of your semester grade.

What is 20%?

200

"Well, son, I'll tell you

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"

("Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes)

Is an example of which figurative language term?

What is a metaphor?

200

This is the number of sentences you should have in your constructed response.

6-8 sentences

200

This is the number of non-fiction passages on the English II EOC.

What is four?

200

This is something that you may not have during the test.

What is a cell phone, backpack, or book?

200

This is what you should do the night before the test and then what should you do the morning of the test.

What are a good nights sleep and good breakfast?

300

"Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere." (1984 by George Orwell) 


Is an example of which figurative language term?

What is imagery?

300

This is the format you should follow when you write your constructed responses.

ACECECon

300

This is the number of fictional passages on the English II EOC.

What is 2?

300

In your English II EOC constructed responses, you should not weigh your essay down with too many examples.

How many examples should you include?

What is no more than 2 examples?

300

This is the date and time of your NC English II EOC.

What is Monday, June 6 at 7:25?

400

What controls the reader's emotional response that reflects the author's purpose?

What is tone?

400

The rubric for the constructed responses has this many points on it.

What is 2?

400

How many questions are on the NC English 2 EOC?  

There are 68 questions on the English II EOC.

400

The amount of time you have to take the English II EOC.

What is 4 hours?  5 hours and twenty minutes if you include breaks.

400

The NC English II EOC is graded on this.

What is a curve?

500

Not everything is said directly in the text. You may need to make an...

What is an inference?

500

For the constructed response, these are the the two things you are be graded on.   (50%/50%)

What are content and conventions?

500

This is the average length of a passage.  (Pages)

What is five pages?

500

This is what you should NOT do at the end of the test.

What is go back to double check your answers?  

It sounds odd, but your answers will be better when the passage is fresh in your mind.  As you take the test, eliminate wrong answers then go with your gut!

500

This is your biggest cheerleader!!!

Who is Mrs. Todd?