Craft and StructureEasy–MediumFunction of a closing image
Craft and Structure practice question
Chalk is made of the shells of tiny sea creatures. Each shell is far too small to see, but over millions of years enough of them settled on the seabed to build cliffs hundreds of metres high. The white cliffs along the coast are, in effect, a graveyard.
Which choice best describes the function of the final sentence?
- A. It restates the earlier explanation in a vivid image.Correct
- B. It contradicts the claim made in the second sentence.
- C. It introduces a different kind of rock.
- D. It gives a precise measurement of the cliffs.
Answer: A. It restates the earlier explanation in a vivid image.
'A graveyard' says again, in one striking phrase, what the first two sentences explained: the cliffs are made of dead creatures.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It contradicts the claim made in the second sentence.
- Nothing is contradicted.
- C. It introduces a different kind of rock.
- The cliffs are still chalk.
- D. It gives a precise measurement of the cliffs.
- The measurement is in the second sentence; the last gives an image.
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