Test Specifics
How much time do you have to take the FAST Reading Test?
What is unlimited time?
A friend trying to persuade you to eat healthier might present scientific studies that show the benefits of a balanced diet and explain how certain nutrients contribute to overall health and longevity.
What is Logos?
The fingertips of the rain tapped a steady beat on the windowpane.
What is Personification?
The lesson, message, or underlying meaning that the author wants to convey to the reader.
What is Theme?
Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect
we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground
What is anaphora?
How will you take notes when reading to help you break the text down?
Read the text in small chunks and write down the big idea from each section.
Antony demands that the crowd look closely at the ruined cloak, as it shows evidence of the gruesome injuries Caesar sustained. He hopes they will be infuriated by Caesar's murder.
Julius Caesar
What is pathos?
Figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them.
drowning in money
My chores were a mountain waiting to be climbed.
What is a metaphor?
What are the literary elements that we can find in every piece of fiction we read? Hint: There are 5?
What is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution?
The primary structure of a poem. A set of lines connected with each other to convey a similar idea.
What is a stanza?
How do you plan/annotate when reading a speech/historical fiction?
Label parts.
What is Rhetoric? (Pathos, Ethos, and Logos)
What are the claims of the author?
What are the arguments?
What is the main idea of the speech?
An advertisement for a charity might incorporate images of starving children and highlight their desperate living conditions to evoke sympathy, compassion and, ultimately, donations.
What is Pathos?
The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
wild and woolly, threatening throngs
What is alliteration?
Is the perspective from which an author tells a story.
List several
What is Point of View?
First Person
Second Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Descriptions that appeal to the five senses…Imagery helps poets convey what they see, hear, smell, taste, or touch.
Taste the green in the lettuce, Hear the crunch of its freshness, Smell its earth perfume.
What is imagery?
What does it mean to unpack the questions?
What is find and understand the academic vocabulary, pay attention to key words and phrases, specifics... be sure I understand what the question is asking.
In his opening lines, Brutus addresses the crowd as "Romans" and asserts that he is speaking as "an honorable man."
Julius Caesar
What is ethos?
Owls screech through the night and keep us awake when we are camping.
What is onomatopoeia?
Is your main character, and they are the primary character interacting with the plot and the conflict.
The opposing character in the story.
What is the Protagonist?
What is the Antagonist?
Poetry defined by its lack of structure….It has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern.
What is free verse?
How do you plan/annotate when reading mythology?
Label parts.
What is Character Development?
What is the Theme/Moral Lesson?
What is the Conflict/Resolution?
A fitness equipment brand might hire a well-known athlete to endorse their product.
A toothpaste brand might make claims highlighting that a large percentage of dentists recommend their product.
What is ethos?
She was Helen of Troy of the class and made all the boys fight.
What is an allusion?
Overall feeling of your story.
What is the Tone?
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
What is a sonnet?