The Regents Exam
Part 1 of the English Regents
What is reading comprehension?
She ran like the wind.
What is a simile?
word choice
What is diction?
The central idea of a work
What is the theme?
How do you cite a line in the argument essay?
What is by citing text number and line number?
He was a wolf, circling the pack of boys, waiting for his moment to strike.
What is a metaphor?
The point of view in which the reader knows only what one or a few people in the story are thinking; the story is told from an outsider's point of view.
What is third-person limited point of view?
The enemy or element against the main character.
What is the antagonist?
A repetition of beginning sounds in succession.
What is alliteration?
How many sources are you provided with for the argument essay and how many are you REQUIRED to use?
What is 4 sources and required to use 3?
The wind howled through the trees.
What is personification?
The feeling the reader gets from the story.
What is the mood?
What is denotation?
The time and place in which a work takes place.
What is the setting?
What MUST appear in the opening paragraph of the argumentative essay?
What is a counterargument?
An object that represents a larger idea or concept.
What is a symbol?
What is the word for sentence structure?
Syntax
A reference to a well-known object, event, or person in history or pop-culture.
What is an allusion?
What is the format of the part 3 literary analysis short response?
What is gbt, a paragraph on the theme and how you know it's the theme, and a paragraph on the literary technique and how the technique illustrates the theme.
I know one thing for sure; that I know nothing.
This is an example of:
What is a paradox?
Calling a person a "baby" because they are acting immature is a good example of this word, meaning the associations we make with words rather than their literal meanings.
What is the connotation of a word?
Gods and goddesses or the grim reaper are examples of....
What is anthropomorphism?