Short Answer Responses
This should be included to support your answer and show understanding of the text...
What is text evidence?
This figure of speech directly compares two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
This type of correction focuses on fixing grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors...
What is editing?
This is the perspective from which a story is told..
What is point of view?
This is the #1 selling candy of all time...
What is Snickers?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This is the minimum number of sentences typically expected in a complete short answer response...
What is 2-3 sentences?
This uses exaggerated statements to emphasize a point or create humor...
What is a hyperbole?
This type of sentence error occurs when two complete sentences are joined without proper punctuation or conjunction...
What is a run-on sentence?
This is the process of using clues from the text to figure out meaning that is not directly stated...
What is making an inference?
This natural disaster, common in California, has made headlines due to drought and high winds...
What are wildfires?
This skill involves reading between the lines to understand what the text implies...
What is inference skills?
This is a phrase whose meaning is different from the literal meaning of the words...
What is an idiom?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This acronym helps you remember the seven coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so...
What is FANBOYS?
This is the author’s attitude toward a subject or audience...
What is tone?
This group is responsible for electing the President of the United States...
What is the Electoral College?
This is the strategy used in middle school to to respond to short answer responses...
What is the R.A.C.E.S. strategy?
This type of figurative language appeals to the reader’s senses by creating vivid descriptions...
What is imagery?
This type of sentence lacks a subject or a complete thought...
What is a fragment?
This type of writing is meant to convince the reader to think or act a certain way...
Who is Cristiano Ronaldo? (Portuguese soccer star)
This part of a response explains how your evidence supports your answer...
What is reasoning (explanation)?
This figure of speech is shown in the phrase “deafening silence”...
What is oxymoron?
This punctuation mark is often used before a conjunction when joining two complete sentences...
What is a comma?
This word group contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought...
What is a complete sentence?
The 2026 Final Four Women's Basketball Teams...
Who are Texas, UCLA, South Carolina, UCONN?