A technique an author uses to enhance his/her writing for the reader by appealing to his/her senses.
What is a literary device?
100
This is what you should do as your first step to answering an open response question.
What is read the question?
100
"The tree smiled as the kids hung from his branches" is an example of this.
What is personifciation?
100
The word "tan" can be used as these two different parts of speech.
What is a noun or an adjective?
100
Cam spins energetically like Duracell battery. "Engergetically" is this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
200
A paragraph is to an essay like a ____________ is to a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
This is a strategy you can use if you're not sure of a multiple choice answer.
What is use process of elimination, look back in the text, or read it again?
200
"Her smile lit up the room like a ray of sunshine" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
200
The # of examples you need to include in your open response answer.
What is 3?
200
Anthony did a charade of "sleeping oddly" where sleeping is this part of speech.
What is a verb?
300
"I love the feel of the soft sand in my toes and the cold water on my face when I'm in the hot sun" is an example of this.
What is imagery?
300
This is something you do in addition to marking up the text when you're reading for the open response.
What is write in the margins?
300
"The bitter lack of warmth his fur, to that of a housecat" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
300
In the term "waving happily" the word HAPPILY is this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
300
The reason you have to capitalize the word New York is this.
What is it is a proper noun or a specific noun (place)?
400
Give 3 examples of figurative language.
What are simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, idiom, imagery?
400
This is the thing you should do right before reading the passage.
What is read the italics?
400
This is what a writer uses to make the reader picture things in his/her mind and appeal to the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
400
This is what you should do after you write your open response answer.
What is check it over and make corrections?
400
Beautiful is an example of this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
500
Correct spelling of the word that means.... words that imitate the sounds they make like BAM! BUZZ! POW!
What is o-n-o-m-a-t-o-p-e-i-a?
500
The most important thing you do while reading the article, excerpt, poem for your open response MCAS question.
What is marking up the text?
500
This is what the following sentence is an example of:
"Her smile was as wide as the blue sky!"
What is a hyperbole?
500
One example of a literary device used in the poem about the dying bear and what it means.
What is sneaky snowflakes surround the saddened bear? personifcation.
What is creatures body becomes as cold as dry ice? simile
What is the sneaky snowflakes are like a pack of wolves? simile
What is the snow seemed to laugh maniacally?personification
500
The word 'beach' in the following sentence is this part of speech. "We went to the beach house to relax for the weekend."