Vocab, Grammar, Mechanics
Identify the part of speech represented by the underlined word:
June is a wonderful month.
What is an adjective?
The number of multiple choice questions featured in Part 1 of the ELA Regents Exam
What is 24?
A comparison using either the word like or as
What is a simile?
This literary element is featured in this line of poetry:
"Hope is the thing with feathers..."
What is a metaphor?
This character likes ketchup.
The name of the punctuation mark featured in this word: I'm
What is an apostrophe?
The number of paragraphs in an argument essay
What is 6?
A struggle between 2 opposing forces
What is conflict?
This literary element is featured in this line of poetry:
"Oh the bells, bells, bells...
How they clang and clash and roar..."
What is onomatopoeia?
This character takes care of the horses in the stable.
Who is Crooks?
Auto correct...Autonomy...Autobiography...From this list, one can infer that the definition of the root word auto means this:
What is self?
Students must cite text evidence from at least ___ of the four texts to earn a passing score on the Argument Essay.
What is the number three (3)?
Helps a reader visualize a scene by appealing to any of the 5 opposing senses
What is imagery?
This literary element is featured in this line of poetry:
"With swift, sweet, sour; a dazzle, dim..."
What is alliteration?
This god sometimes grumbles about annoying human behaviors.
This is the capital city of Congo and where Sophie's Mom has her house.
Who is Zeus?
What is Kinshasa?
Chronology...Chronological...Synchronize...From this list, one can infer that the definition of the root word chron means this:
Students must choose a literary element that develops the ____ on the TAR.
What is the central idea?
When what the reader expects to happen/ thinks is true does not happen or is not true
What is irony?
This literary element is featured in this line of poetry:
"Water, water, everywhere,
And not a drop to drink..."
What is irony?
This person was taken prisoner by the Nazis, escaped, and returned to his village. But no one believed his tale of horror.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
Identify the part of speech represented by the underline word:
Summer is here.
For the Argument Essay and TAR, students cite text evidence using this format:
What is parenthetical citation format?
When human qualities are featured in a non-human thing
What is personification?
This literary element featured in this line from the novel Living to Tell the Tale:
"Bogota...a city where... rain had been falling since the beginning of the the 16th century..."
What is hyperbole?
This character takes her laundry to the river.
This character generously provides Sophie with transportation in his pirogue.
Who is Nausicaa?
Who is Wello?