When a comparison is made using the words "like" or "as"
What is SIMILE?
100
The main characters of this novel are George and Lenny.
What is OF MICE AND MEN?
100
This is step ONE of the multiple choice strategy.
What is read and UNDESTAND the question?
100
How many literary elements and passages do you write about in the LITERARY ELEMENT paragraph from part III of the ELA Regents?
ONE literary element and ONE passage
200
This literary element relates to how a character behaves, feels, looks like, thinks, how they speak, etc.
What is CHARACTERIZATION?
200
This literary technique gives human qualities to something that is not living.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
200
This character in A Raisin in the Sun lost his family's inheritance in a poor investment.
Who is WALTER?
200
If I skip this step, I won't be having FUN.
What is STEP TWO of the multiple choice strategy?
200
I will use this type of chart to organize main ideas from Passage 1 and Passage 2 to create the controlling idea STATEMENT.
What is a T CHART?
300
These are the 4 types of conflict that exist.
What is:
Person vs. Person
Person vs. Self
Person vs. Nature
Person vs. Society ?
300
In the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the rivers represented life. This is an example of which literary technique?
What is SYMBOLISM?
300
This was the dream Lenny and George had.
What is ...
To own a home and live off the fat of the land.
300
This type of multiple choice question requires the reader to THINK about the answer.
What is INFERENCE or WORDS in CONTEXT question?
(Both answers will be accepted)
300
This information is what you would include in every single writing section of the ELA regents to SUPPORT your ideas.
What is TEXTUAL EVIDENCE?
400
This is one major theme in A Raisin in the Sun.
ANSWERS VARY
400
This literary technique relates to WORD USAGE and more specifically how an author selects the "RIGHT" words in their writing to convey a particular idea.
What is DICTION?
400
This author wrote the poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "I, Too Sing America".
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
To answer a question that relates to the entire passage without reading the entire passage, this is what you can read instead (as a shortcut).
What is ....
Read the first sentence of every paragraph AND the entire last paragraph?
400
These are the four things you introduction needs in your critical lens essay.
What is ...
Restate quote
Interpret quote
State is quote is true or false
Name two works of literature
500
This is one major theme is Of Mice and Men.
ANSWERS VARY
500
POW
BANG
VROOM
are all examples of this literary technique.
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
500
This is one main idea found in I, Too, Sing America.
ANSWERS VARY
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!
This is the MAIN RULE Mrs. Ross and Mr. Scanlon gave you about the 4 Step Strategy.
What is DON'T SHORTCUT THE SHORTCUT?
(Wording may vary)
500
In your critical lens essay, this is something that your conclusion has that your introduction does not.
What is SUMMARY of your main points from your body?