What is an idiom?
What is hyperbole?
What is a hyperbolic idiom?
100
This is the process by which you rule out answers one by one.
What is the process of elimination?
100
This will help you feel refreshed when you wake up.
What is have gone to bed at a reasonable time?
What is take a shower to help you wake up?
100
This will ensure you don't feel rushed to school.
What is wake up at a reasonable time?
100
Before you read, do this.
What is preview the text and number the paragraphs or lines (lines if it's a poem)?
200
She looks like a lion, the way her hair poofs out everywhere.
What is a simile?
200
This is the incorrect answer that might give you pause when you're choosing your response.
What is a distractor?
200
This is what you should turn off before you go to bed so as to not disrupt your sleep.
What is turn your phone off or on "Do Not Disturb"?
200
This is absolutely incredibly important every morning.
What is eating breakfast?
200
You do this as you read.
What is annotate the text?
** Underline, circle, write in the margins!!
300
The tornado whipped about and threw tractors all about the wind-torn fields.
What is personification?
300
This is what you should do when you think you have the correct answer.
What is go back and confirm or verify it with the text?
300
Do not eat or drink things with too much of this after 7:00 because it will affect the quality of your sleep.
What are things that contain caffeine?
** chocolate, soda, energy drinks, even tea, etc.
300
Making this kind of choice will physically help you feel focused and comfortable.
What is wearing loose and soft clothing that is dress code safe?
** Ladies, you need to especially take note of this! Don't dress up these days.
300
Doing this will cause you to get the wrong answer, every single time.
What is leaving a question blank?
** That being said, don't get stuck on one! Move on, but always go back. You have plenty of time, for real.
400
from "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes
"Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard"
What is alliteration?
400
This is what you should do to the answer choices as you go through them.
What is mark up the answers?
What is underline or cross out or draw a question mark to the answers?
400
Never go to bed without having done this because you can wake up with a headache and feeling nauseated.
What is eating dinner?
** Even if it's something small - dinner shouldn't be your biggest meal of the day anyways.
400
Although some will be provided, these are items that you might want to bring anyways.
What is an extra #2/0.7 pencil and an extra eraser?
400
If you start to feel anxious or tired, this will help you.
What is take a quick and seated stretch?
What is take in a deep breath slowly and then slowly release it?
500
Tupac's "The Rose that Grew from Concrete"
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
What is a metaphor?
500
This is what you should do when you read the question and answers.
What is read carefully?
What is read each and every word?
What is reread?
500
Always do this before you go to bed.
What is use the bathroom and make sure you've brushed your teeth?
500
Take care of this before the test.
What is eat your snack and go to the bathroom?
** Even if you're not hungry, eat the snack and drink the water!
500
Knowing this will help you to feel better when you're looking at the answers.
What is remembering that the right one will always be included?
** Use your smarts!
*** Remember, if the testmakers take on the cost of printing pictures or graphs or charts, there will be answer embedded within those graphics!!