Vocabulary
In the text, the author says that "a plane is the closest the average plebe is going to get " to teleporting.
What does the word plebe mean as it is used in the passage?
A. location
B. pace
C. person
D.vehicle
What is a person?
What is a simile?
What is three hours?
To add to or help out
What is contribute?
"As a result," "because," and "therefore" are clues for which structure?
What is cause and effect?
Read the following phrase.
....his body was inhabited by the ghost of a wicked, old money-lender, who had died some years ago. Which word could replace inhabited as it is used in the phrase?
A.birthed B.created C.demanded D.occupied
What is occupied?
Directly stated
What is explicit?
This reading genre is weighted most heavily on the MAAP state assessment.
What is informational text?
What is onomatopoeia?
Why might an author use compare/contrast when discussing two inventions?
What is to help readers understand similarities and differences between the inventions
Modern-day police often use teeth to help identify victims of accidents and foul play?
What does the word foul mean in the sentence?
A.unpleasant
B. out -of - bounds
C. make certain
D. wrongful
What is wrongful?
A comparison of two unlike things without the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This strategy helps you cross out wrong answers to find the correct one.
What is the process of elimination?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A statement or opinion that the author is trying to prove
What is a claim?
Then the little children in the village made him very happy....only the knowledge that it was unsportsmanlike to kill little naked cubs kept him from picking up and breaking them in two.
What does the author's metaphor reveal about Mowgli's feelings toward the little children?
A. Mowgli feels that the little children are acting immature.
B. Mowgli feels that the little children are small and unprotected.
C. Mowgli feels that the little children are angry and a waste of his time.
D. Mowgli feels that the little children are not playing fairly and acting like bears.
What is Mowgli feels that the little children are small and unprotected?
This character undergoes an important change as the plot unfolds. The changes he or she experiences occur because of his or her actions.
What is a complex character?
True or False: A reader should never go back into the text and find evidence before choosing an answer.
What is false?
The feeling or atmosphere a text creates within the reader.
What is mood?
A brief summary that includes only important information without opinions.
What is an objective summary?
And Mowgli had not the faintest idea of the difference caste makes between man and man. When the potter's donkey slipped in the clay pit, Mowgli hauled it out by the tail, and helped to stack the pots for their journey to the market at Khanhiwara. That was very shocking, too, for the potter is a low-caste man, and his donkey is worse.
Which two phrases mean the same as caste as it is used in the excerpt?
A. an occupation as a potter
B. an occupation as a farmer
C. a social ranking of animals and people
D. a physical ranking of animals and people
E. a group of people that share common cultural features
What is a social ranking of animals and people and a group of people that share common cultural features?
The events of a story: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is a plot?
This annotation strategy helps you quickly explain what each paragraph is doing, so you do not have to reread the text.
What is chunking?
Refers to words and phrases that are not intended to be understood literally.
What is figurative language?
A question asks about TONE, but the answer choice explains PLOT events only.
Why is it a distractor?
What is because tone focuses on the author's attitude or feeling, not what happened in the story?