Tools/Strategies
Used to get rid of answer choices.
What is the process of elimination?
Her smile was as bright as the sun.
- metaphor
- simile
- hyperbole
- personification
What is a simile?
This word means to beg someone urgently or desperately.
What is beseech?
Identify the simple subject:
“The tiny kitten slept on the windowsill.”
What is kitten?
What ocean is on the west coast of the United States?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A tool that can help you pick out important details in the passage.
What is the highlighter tool?
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole?
This word describes someone who is warm, friendly, and pleasant.
What is genial?
What type of sentence is this:
“Did you finish your homework?”
A triangle with all three equal sides is called what?
What is an equilateral triangle?
The question says, "What is the main idea of paragraphs 14 through 17?" The first thing a strategic test taker would do is...
Scroll to paragraphs 14 through 17 to review
The storm clouds marched across the sky, shoulder to shoulder.
What is personification?
If you get something or obtain it, you do this.
What is acquire?
Is the following a fragment or a complete sentence?
“Running down the hallway after the final bell.”
What is a fragment?
What is the largest U.S. state by land area?
What is Alaska?
A tool that can help make the colors of the screen more bearable.
What is changing the background color?
The classroom was a zoo today.
- metaphor
- simile
- hyperbole
- personification
What is a metaphor?
Someone who shows no pity or mercy—completely unforgiving—is described with this word.
What is ruthless?
Identify the simple predicate:
“The students eagerly completed the assignment.”
What is completed?
What is the name of the process plants use to make their own food from sunlight?
What is photosynthesis?
Mrs. Stirman's number one testing strategy
Going back into the text to check your answers
Silence sat heavily between us.
- metaphor
- simile
- hyperbole
- personification
What is personification?
In a mystery story, a character might try to ___ suspicion by acting overly relaxed.
What is dispel?
Is this a complete sentence or a run-on?
“I wanted to go to the park it started raining.”
What is "run-on"?
What is the largest desert in the world?
What is the Antarctic Desert?