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West Virginia General Summative Assessment (WVGSA) VIP Practice Exam
WVGSA — The WVGSA is administered annually by the West Virginia Department of Education to students in grades 3–8 and grade 11, assessing English Language Arts and Mathematics aligned to West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards (WVCCRS); this VIP practice set mirrors the Grade 10–11 ELA and Mathematics content domains at full assessment difficulty.
57
Questions
90m
Time Limit
70.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 57👑 VIP
Read the following passage excerpt and answer the question. "The river had not always run brown. Eliza remembered a time — barely, the way children remember dreams — when it ran clear enough to see the flat stones beneath, when her grandfather would point to the current and say, 'That is the same water that carried Daniel Boone west.' Now, in the summer of her thirty-second year, the water moved like something ashamed of itself, thick and reluctant, avoiding the light." Which literary device is most prominently used in the final sentence of this excerpt?
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