Short Answer Questions
STAAR Essays
Grammar
Rhetorical Devices
More Rhetorical Devices
100
Answer, Prove, Explain
What is the APE strategy for answering short answer questions?
100
Essay that explains information or a topic.
What is an expository essay?
100
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What are the FANBOYS?
100
Figure of speech that gives human characteristics to non-human characters.
What is personification?
100
Words that imitate sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Incorporating a quote into a larger sentence so that it flows seemlessly in your response.
What is embedding a quote?
200
Type of essay that takes a position and tries to convince audience to something.
What is a persuasive essay?
200
Combined with a comma, the FANBOYS fix these types of sentences
What is a run on sentence?
200
An object that represents something else in a literary work.
What is a symbol?
200
A comparison of two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
300
One of the "APE" parts of the short answer response where you tell how your quote proves your answer.
What is Explain?
300
The one clear sentence statement that must answer the prompt and should appear at the end of your introduction and beginning of conclusion. The entire essay should be spent supporting this statement.
What is a thesis?
300
A colon or a comma
What must you have before you write a quotation
300
A comparison of two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as" in the comparison.
What is a simile?
300
Words chosen that paint a vivid picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
400
Connecting or paired passage selections require ____ _______ (number + _____) to successfully complete the short answer response.
What is 2 quotes?
400
Modern example from pop culture, logical reasoning, movie example, quotation, anecdote, and example from history
What are types of support?
400
A semicolon
Combines two sentences on its own without any words
400
The repetition of the initial sound of words in a poem.
What is alliteration?
400
Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
500
3 sentences
What is the number of sentences you must have in your short answer question response?
500
Organizational Structure and Idea Development
What are the 2 most important things in your essay?
500
Another way of saying a complete sentence that can stand alone
What is an independent clause?
500
When words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.
What is irony?
500
A literary reference to a well-known thing.
What is allusion?
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