Informational Text
In an argumentative essay, this is the main point that the writer aims to prove or support with evidence
What is a claim?
A literary term that describes the perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Term for the message of a literary work
What is the theme?
Literary Analysis, Research Simulation, and Narrative Writing
What are the 3 types of writing prompts?
Use this strategy to evaluate choices on multiple choice questions.
keep / slash
In a persuasive essay, this section presents the opposing viewpoint and refutes it.
What is the counterargument?
The literary term that refers to the time and place in which a story takes place
What is setting?
The literary device that is being used in the following phrase: "The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky"
What is personification?
This prompt asks you to write a story with a similar plot and theme but set in a modern time and place and develop your response using ideas and techniques from the passage.
What is a narrative writing prompt?
A figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another to provide a resemblance between the two
What is a metaphor?
This type of text organization presents information in the order it occurs in time.
What is chronological order/ sequential?
The term describes the sequence of events in a story, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
What is plot?
In literature, this term refers to the emotional atmosphere or feeling a work evokes in the reader
What is mood?
This prompt asks you to write an essay analyze and discuss using specific details from both passages to support your response.
What is a literary analysis?
Skills such as highlighting, circling, underlining, #Summaries are examples of
What is annotation?
This term describes the practice of critically analyzing a text to understand its main ideas, arguments, and implications
What is textual analysis?
In literature, this term refers to the buildup of anticipation, anxiety, or excitement experienced by the reader as the story progresses, often leading to the climax
What is tension?
The term for a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things, using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
4
What is the highest you can earn on the writing prompt?
How many minutes do you get for DC CAPE ELA?
90mins
What does it mean to "cite your sources" in an informational text?
What is to give credit to the original authors or creators of the information you used in your text?
In a traditional plot structure, what is the term for the section that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation?
What is the exposition?
A term refers to the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a story
What is foreshadowing?
This prompt asks you to construct a multi-paragraph response in which you make and support a claim about the prompt above. Your response must be based on information that can be found in the provided source set.
What is research simulation?
Use this strategy when determining the meaning of an unknown word(s)
Go back into the specific paragraph and read around the unknown word for clues