This is the main point or position an author is trying to prove in an argumentative text.
What is the author's claim?
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
What is advance?
This is the amount of questions on the EOC
What is 60 questions?
This is the author’s attitude toward the subject, audience, or characters.
What is tone?
This is the person who is telling the story
Who is the narrator
“The wind whispered through the trees.” This is an example of this device.
What is personification?
To create or build
What is develop?
This is the number of constructed response on the EOC
What is 4?
This is the overall feeling or atmosphere a reader gets from a text.
What is mood?
These back up the author’s claim using facts, examples, and reasoning.
What is supporting evidence?
This is descriptive language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
To clarify by giving an example (multiple meanings across disciplines)
What is illustrate?
this is the maximum time allocated to take the EOC?
What is 240 mins or 4 hrs?
This refers to how a text is organized.
What is text structure?
To persuade, to inform, or to entertain are all examples of this.
What is the author’s purpose?
This is when the opposite of what you expect happens.
What is irony?
To improve
What is refine?
This accounts for 42-46% of the EOC- The largest tested category
What is Reading for Information
This point of view uses “he,” “she,” or “they,” and the narrator is not a character.
What is third-person?
A suspenseful story full of jokes is written with this purpose.
What is to entertain?
This type of irony occurs when the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
to strengthen with new or more evidence
what is to support?
This is the longest time you should spend on a constructed response
what is 20 mins?
You should read this first before you read the text
What is the question?