Testing and context clues
Before you answer a question, you must do this.
What is use TIERS, read the answers, and use process of elimination?
The beat of a poem is called its “this”
What is rhythm?
Characters
Who are the people a story is about?
Analogy does this
What is compares the relationship between two things?
“The river flowed like a mighty lion” is an example of a/n
What is a simile?
When a test question asks about the “effect on the reader” it is asking this.
What is the mood of the reader or how the reader might feel?
When you see the word “speaker” it means this
What is the person telling the story or narrator (not the author)?
The pattern in which a poem rhymes is called this.
Example:
Roses are red A
Violets are blue B
Sugar is sweet C
So are you B
What is “rhyme scheme”?
Where and when the story takes place is called its this
What is setting?
Duck : Bird::
A.Penguin : Ice
B.Flying : Airplane
C.Chopsticks : Chinese
D.Submarine : Boat
What is Submarine: Boat
“The waves gently stroked the shoreline” is an example of
What is “personification”
When a test question asks the “effect of the figurative language,” it is asking this.
What is why the figurative language was used?
AKA-What is the purpose of that type of figurative language?
Italics in a text indicate you may be asked this kind of question
Ex. The word insidious in line 5 means…
What is a vocabulary question?
A poem that has no regular form of rhyme or rhythm is called blank verse or this
What is happening in the story is called its this
What is the plot?
River : Tumbling::
A.Flowing : Waterfall
B.Car : Racing
C.Book : Reading
D.Rowing : Boat
What is Car : Racing
A metaphor does this
What is compares two unlike things without like or as
An effect of alliteration might be this.
What is to make the sound or rhythm of the selection softer or harder?
We should be careful of words like “always” or “never” in an answer because of this.
What is that it is an absolute and probably not the correct answer unless directly stated in the text?
The way a poem looks on the page with its lines and stanzas is called its this
What is “form”?
Internal Conflict
What is the problem a character has to solve in the story inside their minds
Fill in- Dog : Fur :: Person :
What is Hair?
A conversation beween people using quotation marks is called this.
What is “dialogue”?
An effect of a simile or metaphor might be this.
What is connect something difficult to terms readers can understand?
Poem lines are numbered this way during the test
What is 1-5?
Repetition
What is when words, phrases or lines are repeated?
Climax of a story
What is the turning point-when the main character makes a decision that changes a story?
Finish : Terminate :: Instigate :
What is start?
When a story used one person telling the story from the “I” perspective it is this point of view
What is 1st person point of view?
An effect of personification might be this.
What is to make an object or the story seem more alive?
In the sentence “She walked into the room poised and proud,” the word “poised” means
What is a positive word similar to proud?
Boom! Buzz! Crash! Are all examples of onomatopoeia. They are used in a passage to do this.
What is to create an image in the reader’s mind?
A narrative is this
What is anything not in poetry form that tells a story?
The word “infer” means this
What is a logical guess or conclusion based on fact or evidence?
When a writer hints at a future event in the story using a sign or a feeling, it is called this
What is foreshadowing?
If you are asked to “analyze the impact of the author’s choice,” you may be asked this.
What is author’s purpose?
In the sentence “The hound had a plethora of teeth; there were so many I was afraid!” The word “plethora” means
What is a lot!
“Sleepy sweep of snow” is an example of this poetic device
What is alliteration?
State the rising action/conflict in “Finding Nemo”
What is when Nemo gets lost in the ocean?
When you see the words “on the other hand” what does it signal in the selection?
What is that the author will give a different opinion from the previous paragraph or sentence?
“All you have to do is click your heels three times and you’re home…at least, that’s what I’ve heard, anyway” is an example of this literary term
What is an allusion?
This is the effect of conflict on the reader in a story?
What is that it increases the tension.
In the sentence, “Use the dentifrice on your teeth and make sure they’re clean!” The word “dentifrice” means
What is toothpaste?
If you are asked how a poem is organized, the test means this.
What is how the stanzas and the rhythm are set up in the poem
In the sentence below, this is why the man felt foolish.
“It had been a foolish whim to come at all- foolish, because the object of his quest was not to be found there or elsewhere.”
What is that he realizes he cannot solve his problems by searching for them in that place?
If you are asked what information a character conveys, you are being asked this.
What is the information that the character is giving the reader?
Irony is this
What is the opposite of what you expect to see, hear, or what happens?
The effect of irony on a story is this.
What is to create a mood of suspense or humor?
In the sentence, “She yelled indignantly, ‘I will NOT let you push me around!’” Indignantly means
What is righteously angry?
In this section of poem, state the imagery:
He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow,
The only other sound's the sweep of easy wind and downy flake
But I have miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep
What is "the sweep of easy wind and downy flake"
Two types of characters are
What dynamic (shows change) and static (no change)?
In the sentence below, this is conveyed by comparing the bird to a dream.
“Dreams are like a bird that mocks/
Flirting the feathers of his tail”
What is that the dreams are easy to think about but hard to catch?
“Selection” in the EOG’s refers to this
What is the piece you are reading whether a poem, fiction or non-fiction?
An effect of reading the end of text questions BEFORE the passage is this.
What is you get clues to what the passage is about.
In the sentence, “She didn’t know where she fit into the hierarchy-at the top or at the bottom…” the word “hierarchy” means
What is a ladder with the best at the top?
“The ground was a huge slide, slipping out from under him as he fled.” The poetic device used in this sentence is this
What is metaphor?
The sentences below reveal this about the character.
“He had lost that intangible, all-real wealth of faith and idealism and zest; he had bartered it away for the hard, yellow gold of the marketplace, and he realized at last how much poorer he was than when he had left that home valley.”
What is he realizes he would now trade his fortune for happiness?
When you infer, you use these things to make a guess
What is your common sense, the facts in the text, and the tone of the text?
A writer’s attitude about the subject is called this
What is tone?
Explain TIERS.
What is
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Intro
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