Question Stems
What is the skill for this question stem?
"Where does the central idea first emerge in the text?
What is central idea?
An educated guess
What is an inference?
What is a comparison between two things without using like or as?
What is a metaphor?
The R in the RACE acronym
What is restate the answer?
What skill matches the question stem below?
"What can you infer about the character boo radley?
What is characterization?
What skill matches the question stem below?
"How does the author’s use of rhyme scheme enhance the theme of the poem?"
What is theme?
What is the Hero's Journey?
Sounds in a text
What is onomatopeia?
How many pieces of evidence should you use to support your claim?
What is two?
What is the first text we read in August?
What is Where I'm From?
What is the skill for this question stem?
"How does the author unfolds his idea"
What is text structure?
The message the author wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?
Human characteristics given to not living objects
What is personification?
What is quotation marks?
When author reveals the personality of a character throughout the story.
What is characterization?
What skill matches this question stem?
"How does the author use language to advance his/her point of view?"
What is point of view?
The PIE acronym is used to describe what skill?
What is author's purpose?
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light)
What is an idiom?
The author's word choice
What is diction?
Ethos, pathos, and logos fall under what skill?
What is rhetorical appeals?
Which skill matches the question stem?
"How did the author make the connection between ______________and _____________?"
What is author's claim?
using the exact same words
What is verbatim?
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
"an reference to Shakespeare"
What is an allusion?
Another word for the R & A in RACE
What is claim?
The three types of irony.
What is dramatic, situational, and verbal?