Poetry
This is the term for a grouping of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This is the term for a statement that is presented as a fact but doesn't have evidence behind it (yet). The best performing students are the ones who don't use their phones during class.
What is a claim?
These are the punctuation marks you must include around any text evidence that you copy word for word from the reading passage.
What are quotation marks (" ")?
This is when you compare two things using "like" or "as". Once you know this, writing is easy as pie.
What is a simile?
This is typically the author's purpose when they write an informative text.
What is to educate/inform?
This is is a term for repeating the sounds in the beginning of words over and over. Certainly students study several similar sounds.
What is alliteration?
This is the term when the author quotes another person who is an expert in order to back up their points.
Use this punctuation when you want to combine two sentences together that share a common idea but don't want to use a coordinating conjunction word.
What is a semicolon (;)?
This is when you compare two things by saying that one thing is the other thing. This STAAR review bootcamp has been a mountain to climb.
What is a metaphor?
This is the text structure used when the author starts at the earliest event and each paragraph comes after on a timeline.
What is sequential?
This is when a poem says the same structure or line over and over and over and over and over.
What is repetition?
This is the term for the arguments that the other side would make. You must include this in your ECR if you are writing an argumentative essay.
What is the counterargument?
This is what you must do when you write a word that is a proper noun such as a person's name or the acronym of an organization?
What is capitalize?
This term describes when you give an inanimate object the qualities of a living thing. The wind is screaming for you to get this answer right.
What is personification?
Writers of informative texts want you present all sides of an issue and avoid doing this. That would make it argumentative.
What is picking a side?
If a poem really makes you feel a certain way, then the author has done a good job conveying this.
What is tone?
This is when the author responds directly to the arguments made by the other side.
What is a rebuttal?
This is the possessive pronoun you use when you want to clarify that the object belongs to it.
What is 'its'?
This is when a physical object represents an imaginary idea or concept. Is that fire literal or does it stand for hope that you pass the STAAR test next week?
What is symbolism?
This is the term for a visual that is embedded in a reading. This could be a graph, chart, or map.
What is a graphical element?
This is the term for when a poem doesn't have lines that rhyme.
What is "free verse"?
This is the 3 letter acronym we use for not only writing an argument but also to structure our SCRs.
What is CER?
What is a clause?
This is when author writes a word in order to portray a specific sound. If you know the answer you should BUZZ in.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the text structure used when an author organizes the text by presenting an issue and then how to fix it.
What is problem-solution?