ELA Vocab
Important Ideas
Test Day
Open Response
Multiple Choice
100
This part of speech describes (or modifies) a noun in a sentence.
What is an adjective
100
This is the "big idea" or "lesson" your grader wants you to think about.
What is Theme?
100
In the morning, who will you take the test with?
What is homeroom teacher (in most cases)?
100

One important thing that you need in a literary response essay.

What is evidence?

or 

What is a central idea or thesis?

100

I do this first when I start a story.

What is check for the title and author?

200
This word refers to giving something that is not a person human-like characteristics in writing
What is personification?
200
This is the big problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
200

This is how long you have to work on MCAS.

What is as long as you need?

200
How I show paragraphs in my open response.
What is indent.
200
I do this on every single question to figure out which is the answer with the most evidence.
What is go back to the passage/story?
300

This is the word that means a group of lines in a poem.

What is a stanza?

300
This is the events that happen in the story.
What is plot?
300

This is how you take a break during MCAS.

What is go to the bathroom or put your head on your desk?

300

The last paragraph of my literary response essay is called this.

What is "Conclusion"?

300
This is what I do when I don't know the answer to a question.
What is rule out the ones that are wrong and take my best guess.
400
Alliteration, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, and Imagery are all examples of this.
What is Figurative Language/Figures of Speech?
400
This is how we figure things out that aren't said in the story, but that we still know.
What is inference/using context clues?
400

This is what happens if your phone or other electronics go off during MCAS. 

(You should not have them with you at all)

What is the scores of the whole room may not count?

400

This is one thing you should never do while writing a literary response.

What is use first person pronouns?

or

What is use "I" statements? ("I think...")

400

This is how I deal with a multiple choice question about a vocabulary word.

What is plug in the answer choices to the sentence from the passage?

500
This word refers to the author's mood or how they would read the text out loud.
What is Tone.
500
This means putting things in your own words rather than copying. You should use it in open responses, and the test will do it in multiple choice answers.
What is paraphrasing?
500

These are some things that I should bring on MCAS testing day.

What is a book, pencils, erasers (other answers possible)?

500

How I indicate the title of a book or article in my topic sentence.

What is italics for a book and put in quotes for an article or poem?

500

This is one thing I will never ever do on a multiple choice question

What is "pick a random answer"?

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