This part of a short answer provides support for A + B.
What Proof/text evidence?
100
In a drama, when a character makes a speech to himself out loud.
What is a soliloquy?
100
"She is as pretty as a flower" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
100
You should start this section of the test first.
What is the essay?
200
The score when a connecting selections short answer response has evidence from only one text.
What is 1?
200
The process of using your background knowledge plus what you read in a text to make an educated guess.
What is an inference?
200
"He has a heart of gold" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is a metaphor?
200
You should do this when you don’t know the meaning of a word.
What is use a dictionary?
300
The score when a response is missing an “idea” or has no answer.
What is a 0?
300
In a drama, these describe the setting and tell the actors what to do.
What are stage directions?
300
"She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
300
You should complete this section of the test last.
What is the reading & multiple choice section?
400
The score when a short answer response has text evidence that does not support the idea.
What is a 1?
400
In the movie Shrek, the audience knows that Fiona is really an ogre before Shrek finds out. This is an example of what type of irony?
What is dramatic irony.
400
"I have a million things to do today" is an example of what type of figurative language.
What is a hyperbole?
400
You should do this before you begin writing your essay on the lined response page.
What is planning/brainstorming?
500
A way to help visualize if you have all the parts of the A+B/P strategy in your short answer response.
What is color-coding or highlighting your answer?
500
In the movie Batman Begins, a young Bruce Wayne falls into a well and startles a group of bats who begin to swarm him. This is an example of what type of literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
500
"Boom, boom, boom. You're even brighter than the moon, moon, moon." These song lyrics are an example of what type of figurative language?
What is onomatopoeia?
500
You have this many hours to complete the English STAAR.