Test Taking Strategies
Fiction
Poetry
Expository Text
Persuasive
100
After reading, I should practice this skill to help me analyze the content of the passage.
Write a 5W or main idea summary


100
the character or force in conflict with a main character
What is antagonist?
100
grouped lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
a statement that cannot be proven true or false
What is opinion?
100
What is a common place assertion?
A general statement that cannot be proven false.
200
I will need to identify one of thee three purposes to determine how to analyze the passage.


What is PIE, to persuade, inform, or entertain?
200
the overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea or lesson in a literary text and often deals with abstract questions, beliefs, or truths
What is theme?
200
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? Roses are red Violets are blue I need the answers to the test Can I get it from you?
What is A, B, C, B.
200
a statement that can be proven true or false when research is done (two words)
What is a factual claim?
200
The main idea of the author's argument that they are attempting to prove is know as.....
the author's claim


300
When annotating the questions, I need to identify what the questions are asking by doing ___
Identify 2 to three key or focus words to understand what the question is asking.
300
an author characterizes the character by developing these elements of STEAL, what are these elements?
What the character Says, Thinks, Effects others, Actions, and their Looks.
300
words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
What is figurative language?
300
These ideas are generally related to the main idea and help to prove the author's point.
What are supporting details.


300

Known as the signature move of a persuasive text that separates it from expository, this portion normally asks the reader to do something, and is located at the end of the piece.

What is the call to action.

400
What should readers write in the blank space under the question to help prove their answer?
Quotes and Textual Evidence 


400
a summary or short text that describes the original text must include what abbreviated information from the story
What is BME (beginning, middle, and end)?
400
the feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
400
Name at least two things you need to consider and notice when reading an expository text.
What are graphics/figures, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded/italicized words/phrases?
400
The author may point to their opponents argument and explain why the author's argument is better, this is called __________.
The counterargument.


500
These easy questions ask what a word means,

What two things should I write under these questions?

The sentence from the passage and the definition from the dictionary.


500
In Drama, these italicized words represent actions that the character is supposed to perform for the audience and help to characterize the characters while supporting the plot.

What are stage directions

500
Name the four most common types of poetry and give one characteristic of each.
What is epic (a poem with a story line and follows the adventures of a hero; usually long and have rhythm and repetition), narrative (a poem that tells a story but is much shorter than an epic poem; usually follows the plot diagram), lyrical (a poem that expresses thoughts and emotions and contains rhyme and rhythm/meter), and free verse (a poem that has no rhyme or regular rhythm).
500
What are the five organizational structures that are used by the author?
Cause and Effect

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