Question
What craft technique is used when Maria says, 'Every whistle sounds like goodbye'?
Passage: The Last Signal
(excerpt from an original one-act play)
Setting: A dimly lit train station, late evening. A distant whistle blows. Two characters, MARIA and ANDREJ, wait with packed bags. A single flickering lamp illuminates the platform.
MARIA: [clutching her coat tightly] Do you hear it? Every whistle sounds like goodbye.
ANDREJ: [checking his watch] Or like a beginning. Don’t you think?
MARIA: A beginning? [laughs bitterly] You call fleeing a beginning?
ANDREJ: Sometimes survival is the bravest craft of all. [pauses, lowering voice] But the stories we tell… they will outlast this night.
[The whistle grows louder. Both characters look toward the tracks.]
Group of answer choices
Personification
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Irony
Passage: The Last Signal
(excerpt from an original one-act play)
Setting: A dimly lit train station, late evening. A distant whistle blows. Two characters, MARIA and ANDREJ, wait with packed bags. A single flickering lamp illuminates the platform.
MARIA: [clutching her coat tightly] Do you hear it? Every whistle sounds like goodbye.
ANDREJ: [checking his watch] Or like a beginning. Don’t you think?
MARIA: A beginning? [laughs bitterly] You call fleeing a beginning?
ANDREJ: Sometimes survival is the bravest craft of all. [pauses, lowering voice] But the stories we tell… they will outlast this night.
[The whistle grows louder. Both characters look toward the tracks.]
Group of answer choices
Personification
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Irony
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The craft technique used in Maria's line, "Every whistle sounds like goodbye," is **symbolism**. In this context, the train whistles symbolize farewells and the transitions associated with leaving behind one phase of life and moving into another, reflecting her emotional state and the gravity of their situation.