Figuratively Speaking
What type of figurative language is being used? Taking the NJSLA test is as exciting as Beyonce's performance at Coachella!
What is a simile?
Monet, Tyson, & Imani
What are Mrs. Murray's children's names?
What type of question is being asked when it says: "What is this story mostly about?"
What is Central Idea or Main Idea?
Where a story takes place
What is the setting?
What should you do the morning before taking the NJSAL test?
What is eat a healthy breakfast?
What type of figurative language is being used? The NJSLA test is the Coachella of all tests.
What is a metaphor?
Pink
What is Mrs. Murray's favorite color?
What you should do when you come to a word you don't know in a text
What is: Read the words around it and use context clues to try to understand it. You can also skip the word to see if you can still understand the text.
The emotion that the reader feels from a story.
What is mood?
With fan fiction is it okay to change the characters and make them different from the original author's style?
What is: False
What type of figurative language is being used? The wild March wind whistled through the window.
What is personification? alliteration?
The Game of Thrones
What is Mrs. Murray's favorite fantasy novel series?
Taking notes and underlining important ideas when reading a text is called?
What is annotation?
DAILY DOUBLE: The message or lesson of a story or text
What is theme?
Name the writing genera that include the following in the introduction: Title of text, author, short summary, thesis.
What is a literary essay?
BOOM! went the thunder as it rumbled across the plains.
What is onomatopoeia?
Mrs. Murray has always taught English
False, she has taught all subjects and she was a Junior Planning Analyst for a Fortune 500 Company.
How many details from the text should be used to support your answer in written responses?
What is: At least two or three details
A thesis statement is:
What is claim + reasons/ways/parts that support the claim?
Restate the question, answer the question, cite text evidence, and explain your thinking.
What goes in an open-end response?
I've told you a million times that you are grounded until your homework is done.
What is hyperbole?
My favorite class is ELA, especially when we get to do test prep. It's my favorite thing to study. LOL
What Mrs. Murray hopes all of her students will come to think and believe.
What is the 'claim' in an extended response?
The claim is another word for the 'thesis,' focus, main/central idea of your response.
When an object represents a bigger idea, such as a flag represents a country
What is symbolism?
What are three elements in the argument writing genre that make an argument essay?
What is: Picking aside, a counterclaim/rebuttal, & a call to action