Key Ideas and Details
Craft and Structure
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Language
FSA Trivia
100
This is standard RL 1.1, and what you should always do to support your answer.
What is cite evidence?
100
As outlined in RL 2.4, this is what an author uses when they don't LITERALLY mean what they're saying (such as in a simile, metaphor, oxymoron...).
What is figurative language?
100
The video below presents various accounts of a subject (the ever-changing nature of the world) in multiple of these (in this case, a video and a poem):
What are mediums?
100
One way to determine the meaning of words we don't know is to use this two-word strategy that relies on the other words in the sentence.
What are context clues?
100
This is a passing score for the FSA.
What is 343 for 9th grade and 350 for 10th?
200
When you make an educated guess or "read between the lines" in a text.
What is make an inference?
200
Standard RI 2.6 covers this three-word term, which is another word for the author's perspective.
What is point of view?
200
This word for the believability or trustworthiness of information is covered in both standards RI 3.7 and 3.8.
What is credibility?
200
The dictionary definition of a word is its denotation, but this is its meaning based on the emotions or associations it carries.
What is connotation?
200
This is how long the average student (who is not ESOL and does not get extended time) gets to take the FSA.
What is 120 Minutes?
300
This is what's covered by standard RL 1.2, and is otherwise known as the author's message or a universal truth found within the text.
What is the theme?
300
You might be asked to explain how an author's choices in how they structure a text affect this, which is covered by standard RL 2.5:
What is the plot?
300
Per standard RI 3.8, we call an argument this if it is one-sided or uses fallacious reasoning.
What is biased?
300
This is the term for a type of figurative language where something non-human is given human qualities.
What is personification?
300
This is the largest number of words a single passage can be on the FSA.
What is 1300 for 9th grade and 1350 for 10th grade?
400
This is covered by standard RL 1.3, and is how we would describe a character that changes over time.
What is a complex (or dynamic) character?
400
For standard RL 2.6, you're asked to read a work of literature from outside of the United States and consider how differences in this (otherwise known as the attitudes, customs, and beliefs of a group of people) might impact the meaning.
What is culture?
400
In RI 3.8, the evidence supporting an argument needs to be both of these things to be considered effective.
What is relevant and sufficient?
400
When you're asked to evaluate something, you're being asked to do this... but you won't look quite like the image below:
What is judge?
400
Selectable HOT text, Multiple Choice, Open Response, Multiselect, Evidence-Based Selected Response, Drag-and-Drop, GRID, Table Match
What are the item or question types?
500
A verb that shows up in many standards that means to examine and pick apart.
What is analyze?
500
Standard RI 2.6 might ask you to analyze this, regarding the way an author advances their point of view or purpose.
What is rhetoric?
500
Standard RL 3.9 deals mostly with this, which is a word for when an author references or bases their text off of an earlier, well-known work.
What is an allusion (or adaptation)?
500
One part of the standards involves knowing language conventions, otherwise known as this.
What is grammar/usage?
500
This cluster is what the highest percentage of questions on the FSA ask about (hint: the "clusters" are the first three categories in this game).
What is Cluster 2: Craft and Structure?