SARs
The number of pieces of evidence needed in an SAR.
What is two?
The genre of text literary analysis is focused on.
What is fiction?
The number of pieces of evidence needed for an essay.
What is four?
The first annotation you should have at the top of every reading.
What is genre?
The term for the first paragraph of an essay.
What is the introduction?
The first sentence of an SAR.
What is the Argument Sentence?
The term for when a character is speaking something out loud.
What is dialogue?
The first sentence of the introduction paragraph.
What is the Hook?
The note you should have at the end of a nonfiction reading.
What is the Author's Claim?
The term for an essay asking you to compare two articles and explain which is structurally stronger.
What is an Argumentation Essay?
The sentence that should come after your evidence.
What is the Zoom Out?
This category includes simile, metaphor, and personification.
What is Figurative Language?
The last sentence of the first paragraph of an essay.
What is the Thesis?
The note you should have at the end of a fiction reading.
The term for the first narrative element / the first portion of the narrative arc.
What is Exposition/Set-Up?
A question that asks you to consider a specific portion of the text you just read.
What is a part-and-whole question?
The S in SLATE.
What is Speech?
The number of sentences that should be in the first/last paragraph of an essay.
What is 3-4?
The acronym to follow when annotating for characterization.
What is SLATE?
The term for the portion of an article that dismantles the opposing claim.
What is the Refutation?
The most essential portion of an SAR or Essay prompt.
What is the Central or How/Why Question?
What is the protagonist?
The first sentence of a conclusion paragraph.
What is the Restated Thesis?
The name of the type of evidence you should annotate for when you see surveys and percentages mentioned in an article.
What is Statistical Evidence?
The term for a piece of literature that uses outdated, old-fashioned language.
What is Archaic?