Test Strategies
Poetry
Poetry 2
Types of Questions
Types of Questions 2
100
If you can't find an answer in the text what should you do?
What is make an inference?
100
Group of lines seperated by a space.
What is a stanza?
100
When words or phrases are repeated periodically throughout the poem.
What is repetition?
100
Includes information from the beginning, middle, and end of the passage.
What is summary
100
Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain and Describe are all types of what?
What is author's purpose?
200
While you read a passage, or selection, what do you hashtag?
What is only a FEW important words that will tell you what you have just read? #threewordsummary
200
This poem takes the shape of an object with the placement of its' words.
What is a concrete poem?
200
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
200
The sequence of events in a story, play, or movie. Rising action, climax, falling action.
What is a plot?
200
Sequence of Events, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution, and Description are all ways in which authors do what?
What is organization of writing?
300
When you have a selection to read and questions to answer, you should always look at which first: Passage or Questions?
What is PASSAGE?
300
When a line of a poem ends and another starts on the next line.
What is a line break?
300
A comparison of unlike objects using the words "like" or "as". She is as beautiful as a sunrise.
What is a simile?
300
The central topic, subject, moral, or lesson the author is trying to point out.
What is theme?
300
Something you can prove.
What is a fact?
400
This is called the "Power Hour". Why?
What is find the paired passages first. Our brains are freshest in the first hour of a test, so reading and answering questions for the paired selections is the smartest way to go!
400
This is a poem that expresses the feelings of the poet. You can tell what emotions are being felt.
What is a lyrical poem? (Not always song lyrics!)
400
What figurative language is a direct comparison of two unlike things: The glass was a glistening diamond in the bright sunlight?
What is a metaphor?
400
The point of view when the word "I" is primarily used.
What is first person?
400
How are some ways that stage directions may be written in dramatic literature? Who reads the stage directions, and how is this done?
What is parenthesis, italics, bold, or all of these? What is the actor speaking the next line, and it is read silently.
500
What is the strategy to handle paired passages on STAAR?
What is read the first passage and answer the questions, read the second passage and answer those questions, and finally read and answer the paired questions last?
500
A poem that does not rhyme.
What is a free verse poem?
500
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem: Our house is small-- The lawn and all Can scarcely hold the flowers, Yet every bit, The whole of it, Is precious, for it's ours!
What is AA B CC B
500
The point of view when he, she, it, or they are primarily used.
What is third person?
500
How do you infer?
What is use your background knowledge (schema) and text clues?
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