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What should you do the night before the STAAR?
Get plenty of sleep
100
What gives hints about what is to come?
Foreshadowing
100
What are the two questions you ask to determine main idea?
What is the paragraph mainly about? (the topic) What does the author want me to know about the topic?
100
How do you determine the theme?
Ask what the moral of the story is, or the life lesson
100
What are context clues?
Clues in the text that help us figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
200

What is an extended metaphor?

Extended metaphor is when comparing two things throughout the text

200

What is the difference between an oxymoron and hyberbole?

Hyperbole is the exaggeration ex: raining cats and dogs

Oxymoron ex: Great Depression

200
A good summary contains
All important events from the beginning, middle, and end of the story
200
True or False, and why? The main idea is always stated in the first sentence of a paragraph?
False. It can be found there, or broken up within a passage.
200

What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction?

Fiction is  a text that is false while nonfiction is fiction that is true

300

What is the difference between similie and metaphor?

Similie is an comparing items using as or like

Metaphor is comparing items without using as or like

300
Symbol
What is an image or event that stands for a larger idea?
300
For sequence questions, you should always...
Go back to the story and find the correct sequence
300

What is I Shampoo?

Idiom/ Idiom

Simile

Hyperbole

Allusion/Alliteration

Metaphor

Personification

Oxymoroon

Onomatopoeia

300
What are the two main types of conflict?
Internal and External
400
A valuable test-taking strategy is to ___________ while you are reading.
TAKE NOTES! (actively read)
400
When words like, yesterday, winter, or finally are used in a paragraph it helps the reader understand ...
The sequence of events
400
How do you go about answering context clue questions?
Go back to the text and read the sentences before and after the sentence the word is in
400

Where can you get a good idea what a passage is about before you even read the passage?

What is the title?

400
What are the three types of external conflict?
Man vs man Man vs Nature Man vs Society
500
What strategy should you use when making an answer choice?
Always read ALL the answer choices, eliminate ones you know are incorrect, choose the BEST answer from the ones left and prove your answer.
500
Setting, Characters, Conflict
What three main things that can be found in the exposition of a story?
500
When you inference, what two things should you consider?
What you know + what is in the text A good inference must be based on the text
500

What is the difference between alliteration and repetition?

Repetition is when text repeats itself

Alliteration is when the constant repeats itself.

500
What is the difference between mood and tone?
Mood is the feeling the reader gets when they read a work; tone is the attitude of the author toward their subject matter or audience
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