Figurative Language
A comparison between two unlike things that does no use the terms like or as
What is metaphor?
The time, place and location of a fictional text.
What is setting?
Having no feeling or personal opinion included in a piece of writing or response.
What is objective?
Text or a story organized by time order
What is chronological?
When I don't know an answer, what can I do?
What is eliminate the answers I know are incorrect, take an educated guess, flag it for review?
The attitude the writer expresses in a given portion of text.
What is tone?
An author's argument stated in a complete sentence
What is claim?
The way a character or author views the world
What is point of view/perspective?
One thing you can do the night before to be ready for the test.
Review your notebook and get plenty of sleep? (Stay off your phone! it is just for 1 night)
The main problem of a story
What is conflict?
The opposite of the author's claim
What is counterclaim?
Details that directly support the author's central idea are known as _________________
What is text evidence?
I should use this strategy to answer all multiple choice questions.
What is the UNWRAP strategy?
The lesson the author wants you to understand. The universal lesson.
What is theme?
The reason an author wrote a text or what they hope to accomplish with the text
What is author purpose?
When you make a mental movie in your head.
What is visualization
Electronic devices (cell phones, smart watches, hand held video games, calculators)
What is not permitted in the classroom on testing day?
The main point the author is trying to get across in a text.
What is central idea?
The author's perspective or feelings on a topic.
What is author's point of view?
In stories, authors split their texts into __________________, but in poetry, poets split their texts into ______________.
What are paragraphs and stanzas?
Looking for key words, highlighting important text, reading directions, questions, passages and answer choices carefully
What is what I should be doing throughout the test?