Multiple Choice
Open Response
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
Types of Passages
100
This is the first thing you do when starting a passage.
What is read the italics?
100
This is the best type of planning organizer for an open response.
What is a T-chart?
100
This is when words start with the same sound, as in "Fabulous fish fries."
What is alliteration?
100
You should do this when you finish the test.
What is check your work?
100
This means conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
200
This is what you do when you are looking for an answer OR think you know the answer to a multiple choice question.
What is go back and look for evidence in the passage?
200
This is the first sentence of your open response, in which you answer the question.
What is a TARP? (Title, Author, Restate, Period)
200
This is comparing two things with "like" or "as", as in "He was quiet as a cat stalking its prey."
What is simile?
200
This is the best time to take a break during the test.
When is between passages?
200
This is usually in italics in a PLAY, and tells us the setting and what characters are doing.
What are stage directions?
300
These are the two strategies used to narrow down answers in a multiple choice question.
What is slash the trash (eliminate immediately wrong answers) and M for maybe?
300
These are the three things you should check for when you finish writing your open response.
What are punctuation, spelling, and capitalization?
300
This is comparing two things directly, without "like" or "as", as in "I am a red balloon tied to an anchor."
What is metaphor?
300
This means "in the order of time, or when things actually happened."
What is chronological?
300
This is the structure that defines a poem.
What are stanzas, lines, and rhythm?
400
This is a distractor answer in a main idea question.
What is supporting detail or too narrow?
400
These are the two things you need in an open response, besides the topic sentence.
What is evidence from the text and explanation (your own words)?
400
This is giving human characteristics to something non-human, as in "The sun smiled down on us."
What is personification?
400
This word means an overall, big idea or message of a story.
What is theme?
400
This can be to persuade, inform, or entertain.
What is the author's purpose?
500
These are two strategies for figuring out vocabulary questions.
What are using context clues and replacing the word?
500
These are two things that every quotation needs (that are specific to a quotation).
What are quotation marks and a citation (page/paragraph number)?
500
This is the atmosphere or emotion of a poem or story.
What is mood?
500
Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are all different examples of this.
What is genre?
500
This is what you WON'T find much of in a play.
What is character's internal thoughts?
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