RACE Acronym
This letter in the RACE Acronym asks you to restate the prompt
What is R?
This is used to catch the reader's attention
What is a hook?
The feeling a reader gets from a story
What is mood?
This is the turning point of the story
What is the climax?
An extreme exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
This letter in the RACE Acronym asks you to cite your evidence
What is C?
This paragraph is not in the beginning or ending of an ECR
What is a body paragraph?
the author's voice or attitude about what he or she writes
What is tone?
This is the beginning of the story where characters and setting are introduced
What is Exposition?
A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
"While the cat trusted the robot, he did not trust the humans," (7) is an example of this RACE category.
What is C?
This is used to provide support for your answer
What is cited evidence?
The central idea or lesson about life a story conveys
What is theme?
This is where the character faces resistance leading up to the most exciting part of the story
What is rising action?
This is a group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
This further cements the idea that animals trust robots more than humans when it comes getting their meals on time.
This is an example of this RACE category.
What is E?
Word or words used at the beginning of a paragraph to move on to the next point
What are transition words/phrases?
the development of the characters in a story
What is characterization?
This is the end of the story
What is the resolution?
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is alliteration?
The RACE acronym is useful for planning this long response form
What is an ECR?
This is your main point of the essay
What is a thesis?
who the narrator is and what information he/she provides
What is point of view?
The part of the story where things begin to resolve and we approach the end of the story
What is Falling Action?
A turn of phrase that is unique to a language, culture, or region. The meaning of the whole cannot be derived from the meaning of the parts.
What is an idiom?