Testing Taking Strategies
Poetry/Figurative Language
Drama
Fiction/Folktales
Nonfiction/Literary Nonfiction
100
A pattern of rhymes like every line or every other.
What is rhyme scheme?
100
The books are my brooks, my sermons the stones My parson the wolf on this pulpit of bones.
What is internal rhyme?
100
A novel is divided into chapters, but a drama is divided into... usually to show a change in the setting.
What is scenes and acts?
100
In folktales, this is a common character like the Fox in the Fox and the Crow.
What is a trickster?
100
Autobiographies and biographies are examples of this genre.
What is Literary Nonfiction?
200
Use the Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then, Finally method.
What is a fictional summary?
200
His eyes are bright And his heart as light And his jolly song Speed him along Appeals to what senses?
What is the sense of sight and sound?
200
"Honesty is the best policy" and "Don't trust someone who gives you too much praise" are examples.
What are morals to a folktale?
300
Look for repeated words, connected ideas, about the main who or what - has, is, or does - all the way through the story like a thread.
What is to find the main idea?
300
An author or poet uses this strategy: the repetition of the beginning consonant sound because it is fun to read and it entertains the reader.
What is alliteration?
300
In a novel the author uses quotations marks to show dialogue, but in a drama the playwright uses these.
What is a script with lines?
300
To persuade, to inform, or to entertain the reader.
What is author's purpose?
300
Both Nonfiction and Literary Nonfiction have these.
What are real people and true facts?
400
When you underline where you found the answer in the text and label it with a Q and # sound.
What is proving your answer?
400
An author or poet uses this strategy: gives human characteristics to something that is not human because it helps the reader relate to the subject.
What is personification?
400
These are words in parenthesis that actors do not speak, they just do.
What are stage directions?
400
Another word for the problem in the story.
What is conflict?
400
Maps, charts, diagrams, timelines, photographs, captions, bullet points are just a few.
What are text features?
500
The main idea from the beginning, the main idea from the middle, and the main idea from the end and no trivia.
What is the strategy for nonfiction summary?
500
The voice or narrator in a poem.
What is the Speaker?
500
A novel and a drama both have these?
What are Plot Elements?
500
This is what authors use to plan their fictional stories.
What is plot elements?
500
This is what nonfiction authors use to plan their stories.(Their are 6 of them.)
What are Text Structures?
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