Part 1: Multiple Choice
This is the BEST first step when completing Part 1 of the Regents ELA exam.
What is read the questions before reading?
This is the MOST important thing to include in your claim/thesis.
What is a clear claim or position?
This is the central message or insight about life that a literary work reveals.
What is central idea/theme?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
What is personification?
Part 1 of the ELA Regents exam has this number of questions.
What is 24?
If a student is unsure of an answer after reading the passage, the BEST strategy is to do this.
What is use process of elimination?
This is the number of paragraphs that you should write in an argument essay for the Regents exam.
What is 5?
This is the amount of paragraphs that you should have in your Part 3: Text-Analysis essay.
What is 3?
(Introduction, Body, Conclusion)
An extreme exaggeration used for effect
What is hyperbole?
This author wrote The Great Gatsby, a novel that critiques the American Dream during the Jazz Age.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
These are the genres of reading comprehension passages on the Part 1 section?
What is fiction, poetry, and nonfiction?
This is the fourth paragraph that should be included in your argument writing.
What is counterclaim paragraph?
This is the number of texts that you must read in the Part 3: Text-Analysis Response?
What is 1?
The attitude of the writer toward his/her subject, characters, etc.
What is tone?
The point of view where the speaker is in the story, using words like "I," "me," and "my?"
Words like always, never, and completely in answer choices are often this.
What are signs the answer may be too extreme?
This should follow the counterclaim statement; it is where you refute the counterclaim and reprove your claim.
What is the rebuttal?
You should use AT LEAST this many quotes in your body paragraph for the Part 3: Text-Analysis Response.
What is 2-3?
The opposite of what is expected or intended
What is irony?
At the start of every new paragraph, you must do this in order to show that it is a new section.
When answering an inference question on the Regents ELA exam, students should do this.
What is use clues from the text and make a logical guess?
Where does the claim go in your essay?
What is at the END of the INTRODUCTION paragraph?
After each quote you include in the body paragraph for the Part 3: Text-Analysis Response, what are the 2 sentences that should follow?
What is writing strategy and central idea?
This is an example of the writing strategy because...
This supports the central idea because...
The author’s choice of words based on their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness
What is diction?
What is 3 sources?
(There are 4 in total; you must use 3.)