Craft and StructureHardFunction of an image in a literary passage
Craft and Structure practice question
The following text is from a novel.
The new manager arrived with a plan for every department and a name for every problem, and for a month the office felt like a house being rewired: the lights went off and on in unexpected rooms, and nobody was sure which switch did what any more.
Which choice best describes the function of the comparison to a house being rewired?
- A. It conveys the disorientation the manager's changes caused, with familiar things no longer working as expected.Correct
- B. It indicates that the office had an electrical fault.
- C. It suggests that the manager was an electrician.
- D. It implies that the office was closed for a month.
Answer: A. It conveys the disorientation the manager's changes caused, with familiar things no longer working as expected.
Lights in unexpected rooms; which switch does what.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It indicates that the office had an electrical fault.
- A comparison.
- C. It suggests that the manager was an electrician.
- A comparison.
- D. It implies that the office was closed for a month.
- The office was working, confusedly.
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