Figurative Language
Reading Strategies
Benchmarks
Multiple Meaning
Test-taking Strategies
100
An exaggeration.
What is a Hyperbole?
100
Double check your answers.
What should be done once you've completed your multiple choice questions?
100
This benchmark will ask you to draw similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
100
One of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling (as the words to, too, and two)
What is a homophone?
100
This means eliminating the choices you know are wrong.
What is process of elimination?
200
Repeated consonant sounds occuring at the beginning of words or within words.
What is alliteration?
200
Looking at the hints in a sentence or paragraph to define unknown words or phrases.
What are context clues?
200
This benchmark will ask you to determine the essential message of the passage.
What is main idea?
200
One of two or more words spelled alike but different in meaning and pronunciation (like bow to an audience or a bow and arrow)
What is a homograph?
200
Read/understand the question and choices, eliminate 2 weak choices, go back for textual support, choose the best answer.
What is the multiple choice formula/steps
300
A comparison in a form of a simile or metaphor.
What is an analogy?
300
You can quickly identify important information in each paragraph using this strategy.
What is underlining?
300
this benchmark will ask you to determine why the passage was written.
What is the author's purpose?
300
A word that is spelled and pronounced like another word but is different in meaning(like blue meaning sad or the color blue).
What is a Homonym?
300
This will cause you to ALWAYS, 100% of the time, get the question wrong.
What is leaving a question blank?
400
Language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
400
These types of questions should be previewed first before you begin reading the passage.
What is multiple choice, short or extended responses?
400
This benchmark will ask you to read between the lines to draw a conclusion.
What is making an inference?
400
"I live in Miami" or "Man, that party was live"
What are homographs?
400
Carefully reading the passage and making a mental map of what you read.
What is doing a "close read"?
500
The writers word choice which can be negative or positive, formal or informal.
What is Connotation?
500
These are three of the many pre-reading strategies you have learned in class.
What is read the title, preview pictures, preview graphs, read subtitles, footnotes, etc.?
500
This benchmark will ask you to understand the reasons WHY something happens and the RESULTS.
What is cause and effect?
500
"Shoot me a fade", "Don't fade my clothes", "Cut my hair into a fade".
What are Homonyms?
500
This is what you do when all else fails.
What is (pray, cry, hope, cross your fingers, etc.)?
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