Test-Taking Strategies
The first step to writing the argumentative essay.
What is, answering the prompt?
Central Idea
What is the message of moral of a text?
Define characterization
What is how an author depicts the personality of a character?
When answering multiple choice questions, what is involved when using the process of elimination.
Eliminate every answer you are confident is wrong; every answer you can rule out increases you chances of answering correctly.
The difference between a simile and a metaphor.
What is the use of like or as?
...a simile uses "like" or "as"
"Her face was always quiet, but her eyes were so alive they glowed. Oh, she was the most beautiful, most alive and most loving girl in the world, and she was my sister." The figurative language in lines 14 and 15 helps establish
(1) mischievousness (2) appreciation
(3) admiration (4) aggressiveness
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The literary element used here:
…When the short days of winter came dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown somber. The space of sky above us was the color of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.
What is imagery?
The occasional use of second person point of view contributes to the readers
(1) optimism (3) curiosity
(2) sympathy (4) suspicion
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The strategy you can use when reading passages; you can use this strategy to make sure that you get the information from the 4 passages you are to read.
What is highlighting information for and against OR underlining one and circling the other?
The literary element used here:
A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold. Discipline of this sort is not easy. Even in April’s and May’s serenity I had failed to master it entirely.
What is internal conflict?
"...silent pauses proved far more relaxing than either 'relaxing' music or a longer silence played before the experiment started." The researcher's discovery contributes to a central idea by emphasizing the
(1) distinction between sound and noise
(2) loss of attentiveness after silence
(3) calming effect of music
(4) importance of silence between sounds
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You can bring these, but you cannot be give any.
What is are highlighters?
the meaning of the word "indicator"
for example: Lines 26 through 29 illustrate that language use is an indicator of
What is a device providing specific information on the state or condition of something, in particular?
The attitude of a piece of writing, conveys the authors feeling.
What is tone?
When the question refers to specific lines in the text (ex. lines 14 through 22), what is it that I should do?
GO BACK AND READ THE LINES!