Function of Text Structure: Fiction/Drama Practice Test
•15 QuestionsRead the following excerpt from an original drama.
Dining room. A long table set for four, but only two plates are out. A third plate sits upside down on the sideboard.
MRS. KLINE: Sit. Food cools when you hover.
EVAN: I’m not hungry.
MRS. KLINE: You were hungry yesterday.
EVAN sits. He keeps his coat on.
EVAN: Where’s Dad?
MRS. KLINE: (arranging napkins) Your father is—
EVAN: Don’t. Don’t make it a sentence you can fold.
She stops. The napkin remains half-folded.
MRS. KLINE: He’s upstairs.
EVAN: He’s always upstairs now.
From above: a muffled thump, then a dragged sound. Both look up.
MRS. KLINE: Eat.
EVAN: That wasn’t a chair.
MRS. KLINE: Eat.
Another muffled thump. MRS. KLINE reaches for the upside-down plate, hesitates, then leaves it where it is.
Which best describes the function of the excerpt’s structure, especially the repeated imperative “Eat” and the offstage sounds from upstairs?
Read the following excerpt from an original drama.
Dining room. A long table set for four, but only two plates are out. A third plate sits upside down on the sideboard.
MRS. KLINE: Sit. Food cools when you hover.
EVAN: I’m not hungry.
MRS. KLINE: You were hungry yesterday.
EVAN sits. He keeps his coat on.
EVAN: Where’s Dad?
MRS. KLINE: (arranging napkins) Your father is—
EVAN: Don’t. Don’t make it a sentence you can fold.
She stops. The napkin remains half-folded.
MRS. KLINE: He’s upstairs.
EVAN: He’s always upstairs now.
From above: a muffled thump, then a dragged sound. Both look up.
MRS. KLINE: Eat.
EVAN: That wasn’t a chair.
MRS. KLINE: Eat.
Another muffled thump. MRS. KLINE reaches for the upside-down plate, hesitates, then leaves it where it is.
Which best describes the function of the excerpt’s structure, especially the repeated imperative “Eat” and the offstage sounds from upstairs?