19 They went back up the road. A week ago—or before last night, that is—he would have asked where 20 they were going, but not now. His father had struck him before last night but never before had he paused

afterward to explain why; it was as if the blow and the following calm, outrageous voice still rang,

21 repercussed, divulging nothing to him save the terrible handicap of being young, the light weight of his

22 few years, just heavy enough to prevent his soaring free of the world as it seemed to be ordered but

23 not heavy enough to keep him footed solid in it, to resist it and try to change the course of

24 its events.

1. The last paragraph(19-24) contains an example of
A. hyperbole.
B. simile.
C. alliteration.
D. none of the above

2. The last paragraph describes the boy's
A. patience.
B. maturity.
C. innocence.
D. stubbornness.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.