Supporting Detail
Five question stems
What is: narrator states, according to the passage, based on the passage, passage refers to, author/passage indicates, narrator claims, passage makes clear
Tone is expressed through
What is the authors words and details?
Must be included with the question stem "most nearly means"
What is a word in quotations?
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As used in line 44, “weight” most nearly means
A) bulk.
B) burden.
C) force.
D) clout.
What is Vocabulary and "most nearly means"?
The bookseller would let me sit
on a chair in a corner and read any book I liked to
my heart’s content. He hardly ever allowed me to pay
for the books he placed in my hands, but when he
wasn’t looking I’d leave the coins I’d managed to
collect on the counter before I left.
The narrator indicates that he pays Sempere
A) less than Sempere expects him to pay for
the books.
B) nothing, because Sempere won’t take his money.
C) the money he makes selling sweets to the other
children.
D) much less for the books than they are worth.
What is identify keywords: Sempere/pay
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Makes this question straightforward
What is explicit or direct?
How tone is defined
What is words and feelings of an author?
Two types of vocabulary/words in context questions
What is
Asking the definition of a word
Asking why or how the author uses the word
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The passage indicates that a problem with failing to
document null results is that
A) the results of related studies will be misleading.
B) researchers may overlook promising areas of
study.
C) mistakes in the collection of null results may be
overlooked.
D) the bias against null results will be disregarded.
What is Supporting Detail and "passage indicates"?
Do you think
that the nature of man will be changed, that the same
causes that produced agitation at one time will not
have the same effect at another?
As used in line 84, “nature” most nearly means
A) force.
B) simplicity.
C) world.
D) character.
What is
Go back and read the word in context (read around the word)
Determine the tone (+,-,N)
Eliminate the opposite/POE
Plug in the remaining choices and see which sounds best
Another term for this question type
What is Determining Explicit Ideas?
Five question stems
What is tone of the passage, attitude of the author, writer's overall feeling, narrator feel about, author believes, author's opinion, mood
The steps for answering
What is
Go back and read the word in context (read around the word)
Determine the tone (+,-,N)
Eliminate the opposite/POE
Plug in the remaining choices and see which sounds best
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As used in line 67, “demonstrated” most
nearly means
A) protested.
B) established.
C) performed.
D) argued.
What is Vocabulary and "most nearly means"?
This unusual behavior highlights that different
forces rule the nanoworld, says theoretical physicist
Krzysztof Kempa of Boston College.
As used in line 20, “rule” most nearly means
A) mark.
B) control.
C) declare.
D) restrain.
What is
Go back and read the word in context (read around the word)
Determine the tone (+,-,N)
Eliminate the opposite/POE
Plug in the remaining choices and see which sounds best
The steps for answering in order
What is
Read the question carefully and consider what detail you are being asked to find.
Find keywords and scan the relevant part of the passage.
Read the relevant section and form your own idea of the answer.
Match your idea to one of the answer choices. POE
3 categories of feelings
What is positive, negative, and neutral?
The question stem
What is most nearly means?
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The use of the phrases “dawdling insect” (line 6),
“happily meanders” (line 27), and “unassuming bug’s
encounter” (lines 28-29) in the first two paragraphs
establishes a tone that is
A) academic.
B) melodramatic.
C) informal.
D) mocking.
What is Tone and "tone" along with the answer choices?
The use of the phrases “dawdling insect” (line 6),
“happily meanders” (line 27), and “unassuming bug’s
encounter” (lines 28-29) in the first two paragraphs
establishes a tone that is
A) academic.
B) melodramatic.
C) informal.
D) mocking.
What is determine
Determine if the author is positive, negative, or neutral
Eliminate the opposite
Look at the level of intensity
Main way to find the answer to this question
What is going back to the passage?
The steps for answering in order
What is
Determine if the author is positive, negative, or neutral
Eliminate the distractors/opposite
Look at the level of intensity
Go with your gut
Another title for Vocabulary
What is Words in Context?
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According to the information in the graph, when the
microscope tip is moving away from the salt surface
and is 15 nanometers from the surface, what is the
approximate force on the microscope tip, in
micronewtons?
A) 0
B) 0.25
C) 0.75
D) 1.25
What is Supporting Detail and "according to the information in the graph"?
They proposed that the trap requires a relatively
high concentration of calcium in order to close
and that a single action potential from just one
trigger hair being touched does not reach this level.
Therefore, a second hair needs to be stimulated to
push the calcium concentration over this threshold
and spring the trap.
According to the passage, which statement best
explains why the Venus flytrap requires a second
trigger hair to be touched within a short amount of
time in order for its trap to close?
A) The second trigger produces an electrical charge
that reverses the charge produced by the first
trigger.
B) The second trigger stabilizes the surge of calcium
ions created by the first trigger.
C) The second trigger prompts the calcium
channels to open.
D) The second trigger provides a necessary
supplement to the calcium concentration
released by the first trigger.
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