Question Purpose
The question is asking you to find this if it is worded like this: "What is the best way to describe what happened in this selection?"
What is a summary?
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
When reading a question that specifies a certain paragraph, this is the most important thing a student should do.
What is go back to the text?
This word means relating to or arranged according to the order of time
What is chronological?
This process is correcting errors in a writing passages.
What is editing?
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: "The details in paragraph 5 support the idea that - "
What are supporting details?
Sensory language that appeals to our five senses.
What is imagery?
These words surround and help readers figure out the definition of unknown words.
What are context clues?
What is an antonym?
This process is changing what is in the writing passage to make it better.
What is revising?
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: " Which idea does the author emphasize throughout the selection?"
What is main idea?
The author's feeling towards the subject matter in the text.
What is tone?
This word generally means the lesson the author wants the reader to take away from the story.
What is theme?
This figurative language exaggerates what is happening in the story for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
What is a ECR? How long is it?
What is an extended constructed response; it is four paragraphs.
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: "The author describes his experience in a way that highlights - "
What is author's purpose?
This point of view gives us insight only into the feelings and thoughts of the narrator.
What is first-person POV?
Words or phrases that help the author emphasize what they are writing about to help paint a picture to the reader.
What is figurative language?
This word means to express the same message in different words.
What is paraphrase?
Where does our thesis statement go?
What is the ending of the first paragraph.
The question is asking you to find this, if it is worded like this: "In paragraph 5, Anthony chooses not to mention the ready-made pesto most likely because he - "
What is character motivation?
This type of figurative language uses words with the same starting letter.
What is alliteration?
The age of your ELA teacher.
What is you will never know?
This word means a statement that guides an essay; the statement the author is trying to prove to be true.
What is thesis?
What is the order of sentences in our body paragraphs?
What is claim, evidence, reasoning, conclusion.