Persuasive Essays
Literary Devices
Short Answer Response
Revising/Editing
Testing Strategies/Testing Framework
100
A type of essay that tries to convince the reader to take the writer's position.
What is a persuasive essay?
100
This term is the implied meaning, while denotation is the dictionary or literal definition of a word.
What is connotation?
100
Short Answer Response is the acronym for ______.
What is a S.A.R.?
100
Subject and predicate makes up a ________________ ______.
What is an independent clause?
100
Used to look up unknown words, check misspelled words, and to check for understanding of terms in questions. YOU BETTER USE IT on your STAAR tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!
What is a dictionary?
200
To influence the reader’s opinion by convincing the reader to agree with the author.
What is the author's purpose of writing a persuasive essay?
200
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. For example: biblical, historical, or from a piece of literature.
What is an allusion?
200
Answer, Cite, Explain Answer, Cite, Cite, Explain Answer, Cite, Explain, Cite, Explain
What does ACE/ACCE/ACECE stand for?
200
Go back and read sentences 14-16 for cohesion.
When given a question that ask you to look at sentence 15 and add a sentence after it, what should you do?
200
Five hours is the amount of time each student has to ______ ______ _____.
What is the amount of time students have to complete their English II STAAR test?
300
A sentence that tells the reader the writer's position, and anticipates the organizing structure of the essay.
What is a position statement?
300
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
300
Answer the question by flipping it. Cite direct textual evidence from the: story, article, poem, or play. Explain how your evidence Proves your answer to be true.
What are the three components of a short answer?
300
Serial comma, coordinating conjunction, introductory word/phrase, interrupting word/phrase, conventional situations (dates and addresses), catch-all comma (numbers, titles, to prevent confusion), and nonessential material are all part of the ________ ____________ _____.
What are the seven grammar rules?
300
Revising, Editing, and the Persuasive Essay make up this portion of the test.
What is included in the writing section of the test?
400
It is the othersides argument against your claim, which allows you to anticipate doubts and counter-objections that a reader might have
What is a counterargument?
400
A literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
What is dramatic irony?
400
Evidence taken directly from the text.
What is textual support?
400
When the president arrives. is an example of this.
What is a dependent clause?
400
a dictionary a thesaurus a highlighter a pencil and YOUR BRAIN!!!!! are all a list of things that _________________________.
What students are allowed to use during the STAAR test (and had BETTER)?
500
Twenty-Six Percent of the overall test or 24 points out of the 92.
What is the persuasive essay worth on the STAAR test?
500
It is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it.
What is an analogy?
500
Twenty Percent or Eighteen Points (Each SAR is 9 points each)
What is the SAR percentage of the STAAR test?
500
Hurricanes strengthen over warm waters. is an example of this.
What is an independent clause?
500
The following show the _____ __________ of a ____________ ____ and the _____ ____________ of a _____ ____________ _________. Persuasive Essay: intro with position statement, 2 body paragraphs with one having a counterargument, transition words/phrases, and a conclusion. SAR: answer the question by flipping it, support your answer with direct textual evidence, and explain how your evidence proves your answer to be correct.
What are the four components of a persuasive essay, and the three components of a SAR?
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