Strategies
In this strategy, you get rid of answer choices that are obvioulsy incorrect or have no evidence to support them.
Process of elimination
This genre includes dialouge, characters, and a plot.
The big idea or message in a passage
Theme/Central Idea
The person telling the story
Narrator
This pattern has events in sequence.
Chronological Order
This strategy is used for short constructed responses and extended constructed responses.
R.A.C.E.S.
This genre includes facts, research, and an opinionated author.
Argumentative
The perspective a story is told in
Point of View
What someone thinks or feels, but cannot be proven to be true
Opinion
This pattern presents simliarities and differences between things.
Compare and Contrast
We use this to summarize fictional texts.
Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then.
The author's purpose in this genre is to present the reader with facts about a topic.
Informational
A statement an author makes that is true or the author believes it to be true.
Claim
When characters speak to eachother in a text
Diaglouge
This pattern gives the reader facts, but in no specific order.
Descriptive
We use this to summarize non-ficiton texts.
A.C.S.
This genre includes characters with speaking parts and stage directions.
Drama
Something that can be proven true.
Fact
The part of a story where things get exciting. (leads to the climax)
Rising Action
This pattern presents an issue and provides a resolution.
Problem/Solution
What does ACS stand for?
Author's purpose, central idea, support
This genre includes lines, stanzas, and figurative language.
Poetry
Words that mean something different than thier normal meaning
Figurative language
A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
This pattern presents a situation and its outcome(s).
Cause and Effect