Before you begin answering the question you must...
What is Break Down the Prompt
100
The author's feeling as presented within the passage
What is TONE
100
Things such as pictures, captions, and bullet points that give the reader additional information about the passage are...
What are Text Features
100
When an author compares two things using like or as
What is SIMILE?
100
For the price of a 30-dinar ticket, about $20, curious Tunisians can GAPE freely at the former president’s collection of rare clocks, rococo-themed picture frames and gold-plated falcons...
What does GAPE mean in this context?
What is look with amazement?
200
When you see the words difference, change, similar, compare, or contrast in a question this tells you that you need what in your answer?
What is two pieces of evidence
200
The feeling the reader gets from the passage..
What is MOOD
200
A short story used in order to give background information and/or present the reader with the main idea of the passage...
What is an ANECDOTE
200
A group of lines in a poem...
What is a stanza
200
Ernst Kris and Ernst Gombrich, two of Riegl’s disciples, argued that a work of art is inherently AMBIGUOUS and therefore that each person who sees it has a different interpretation.
What does AMBIGUOUS mean in this context?
What is having more than one possible meaning?
300
To receive the most points on the CR your answer must show that you have...
What is a full understanding of the passage.
300
The universal message or moral of a text...
What is the THEME
300
devices that are used to persuade an audience to take a side ...
What are RHETORICAL DEVICES
300
No man is an island.
This is an example of a...
What is a METAPHOR?
300
Insomnia is never far from my thoughts, especially when I am writing. A poor sleeper even as a girl, I spent many nights scribbling diary entries in a notebook on the bathroom floor after our crowded household had gone to bed.
What does INSOMNIA mean in this context?
What is an inability to sleep?
400
Name three transition words that you could use effectively in a constructed response
What is For example, In conclusion, Therefore, For Instance
400
This is when the opposite of what the reader expects occurs...
What is IRONY?
400
The subheadings and headlines are useful in helping a reader determine the ... of a passage.
What is the MAIN IDEA?
400
A moment in a poem in which the tone or focus of the poem changes...
What is a SHIFT
400
It was Mr. Palermo’s wife, Beth, who first came up with the idea to open a vision care store and then volunteered to go back to school to become an OPTICIAN.
What does the word OPTICIAN mean in this context?
What is a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision?
500
The topic sentence of a constructed response is equivalent to the .... of a full length essay.
What is the THESIS STATEMENT?
500
This is when an author gives human traits to a non-human object in order to emphasize importance.
What is PERSONIFICATION
500
This type of informational text appears in a newspaper and it is subjective.
What is an EDITORIAL?
500
When Katy Perry sings the line "Baby, you're a firework!" She is using a ...
What is a METAPHOR?
500
...attracted by a bigger home in a safer area but also because his father, Chris, enjoyed the seclusion. Oladipo characterized him as “isolated.”
What does the word SECLUSION mean in this context?
What is the act of shutting oneself off from others?