TEST-TAKING STRATEGIES
This strategy involves getting rid of answers that you know can't be correct
What is the process of elimination?
This is the term for a group of lines in poem like the "paragraph" of a poem.
What is a stanza?
The word in the following sentence that means to make something important:
The author used bold font to emphasize what they were trying to say.
What is emphasize?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be and can be found in this paragraph.
(There are TWO answers)
What is thesis statement or claim and introduction?
Examples of this include simile, hyperbole, and metaphor
What is figurative language?
This is what you should do when a question refers to a specific section or paragraph in the text.
What is go back and read just that section or paragraph (don't just rely on memory!)
Poems are not written in sentences and paragraphs, they are written in _______ and ________.
What are lines and stanzas?
The opposite of "compare".
What is contrast?
The universal message or lesson that can apply to the reader or they should learn at the end of the story.
What is theme?
This is called making an inference.
These are some of the tools you can use on the testing platform when taking the exam
What are highlighting, annotation, and elimination?
Poetry often uses this kind of language to be more descriptive and show rather than tell the reader things.
What is figurative language?
Another word for thesis or focus statement.
What is the claim?
This is the part of a text that captures the readers' attention and presents the topic in an interesting way.
What is the hook?
What is evidence?
These are some reasons you want to take your time on your exam
What are: it's not a race, you have hours, you should do your very best?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
The rhyme scheme of this stanza.
What is A, A, B, B?
The reason for a particular action or creation (e.g., literary work or speech); the reason for which something exists (e.g., to persuade, to inform, to express, and/or to entertain)
What is author's purpose?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
The pronouns an author uses when writing in 1st person POV
What is I, me, my, we, etc.?
If love is blind, then how do we see?
It is not a cage, but it is a key.
It can unlock our heart and set us free,
Because it is the wind beneath our wings.
Love is a garden, love is a rose
Once its planted, it sprouts and grows.
This poem is using this type of Figurative Language throughout it.
What is metaphor?
Name 3 of the 5 things you absolutely must make sure you read while testing
1. Title and author
2. Every single word in the passage
3. Pictures, graphics, and their captions
4. All footnotes (vocab or context added at the bottom of the page)
5. Each question and every answer choice
The overall feeling of a poem is called this.
What is the mood?
The main events of a story
What is the plot?
This part of an argumentative text acknowledges the opposite opinion and attempts to disprove it.
What is counterclaim or counterargument?
List the types of perspectives/PsOV in order:
1. "If you are looking to make the best banana pudding ever, then you've come to the right place. Here are the ingredients you will need to get started."
2. "Harry had lived a fairly horrible life. His aunt and uncle were horrible people, and his cousin was a spoiled brat and an even bigger bully. If he'd had any say in the matter, Harry would have much rather preferred growing up in an orphanage."
3. "Teresa and I reconnected years later, and it turns out we had a lot more in common now. She was currently in college going for her degree in Agriculture so she could take over her family business. Me? Well, I wasn't going to go pro in soccer, so I settled for going to school for a Psych degree."
1. What is 2nd person?
2. What is 3rd person?
3. What is 1st person?