Vocabulary
This is a sudden, often violent, illegal seizure of government power by a small group, typically military officers or political elites.
What is a coup d'état?
This part of the ECR has TAG + context for one sentence and a thesis with two reasons for the second sentence.
What is the introduction?
This part of a sentence that expresses a complete thought and contains a subject and a predicate.
What is an independent clause?
This descriptive language engages the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch to create vivid mental pictures for the reader.
What is imagery?
This improves understanding and comprehension of a text and looks like underlining key ideas & shifts in tone, noting strong diction or figurative language, and jotting down the main idea of each paragraph. When unsure of how to begin, start with P-DIDLS to do this.
What is annotating a text?
This is a literary device and rhetorical tool that pairs two contrasting or opposing ideas together in a sentence to create strong contrast or emphasis.
What is antithesis?
The first step when writing an ECR.
What is turning the prompt into a question?
These words link two independent clauses together and require a comma.
What is a FANBOY?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
This describes things such as where objects are, when events occur, and specific characteristics about characters in a text.
What are details?
A strategy a student should use is to cross out obviously wrong answers to help focus on the best remaining choices.
What is the process of elimination?
This dramatic device occurs when a character speaks their innermost thoughts aloud while alone or without other characters noticing. This allows the audience to understand their inner thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
A mandatory component of an essay that is unique to argumentative writing.
What is a counterclaim and rebuttal?
A punctuation mark that can link two independent clauses together.
What is a semicolon?
This uses humor, and often irony, to call out stupidity or general bad behavior. This is often seen in political cartoons making fun of the government, corporations, or politicians.
What is satire?
An answer choice that is partially correct and may use correct vocabulary but wrong meaning and may be partially true, but doesn’t answer the full question.
What is the distractor answer choice?
This is a recurring symbol, image, idea, or situation in a text that represents something beyond its literal meaning.
What is a motif?
What is a citation?
A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined together by a semicolon or a comma + one of the FANBOYS.
Example: I didn’t make coffee this morning, so I feel tired.
What is a compound sentence?
The author's attitude towards his or her writing, subject matter, characters, or audience. It can be established through diction, syntax, and imagery.
What is tone?
This strategy looks like not spending too long on one question, marking difficult questions to come back to, and leaving enough time to go back and review answer selections.
What is managing time wisely?
This term is used to describe innovative, experimental ideas or conventions that push the boundaries of traditional thinking, especially in the arts.
What is avant-garde?
What is an SCR (short answer response)?
This contains at least two independent clauses and one dependent clause.
Example: I woke up at six o’clock because I had to hit the gym, but I was too tired to get out of bed.
What is a compound complex sentence?
The overall feeling or emotional atmosphere in a text that the reader feels.
What is mood?
This helps students have the ability to be alert and have enough energy to focus for an extended period of time on complex tasks.
Why should students get enough sleep and eat breakfast before the test?