Test Taking Strategies
What are the easiest questions to answer? (Must say more that questions that don't require reading)
Grammar or vocabulary questions.
To break something down & determine the value of it is to?
Analyze and evaluate.
This contains a noun and modifier.
What is a noun phrase?
Appeals to one's sense of logic & reasoning
What is logos?
Using what you already know & what you've learned from the text to draw a conclusion
What is making an inference?
This strategy involves underling key information within the question.
What is question annotation?
Used to place emphasis on something
Repetition or hyperbole
This joins two complete ideas by making one of the ideas dependent on the other
What is subordinating conjunction?
Define antecedents & give an example
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As used in Civil Peace, this word means dishonest persuasion; bribery
What is influence?
Being mindful of time
What is parallelism?
What is using the same grammatical structure to talk about related ideas.
Correctly use a semicolon on the whiteboard.
Teacher will access.
List THREE different supporting details.
Statistics
Examples
Comparisons
Anecdotal evidence
Appositives
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Define auxiliary verb & give an example
What is a verb used with another verb to show voice, mood, or tense.
Share one test taking tip that has never failed you.
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This is stating contrasting ideas in parallel structure and then arranging those contrasting ideas next to each other to underscore their differences.
What is Antithesis?
Can be placed after an introductory phrase
What is a comma?
Teacher's Choice
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A prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or a pronoun.
What is an adjective phrase?
Paying attention to details means what?
Reading the entire question and ALL answer choices before making a selection.
What does it mean to juxtapose 2 items?
What is to use proximity to contrast.
Or
What is to contrast to items that are place closely together.
A main verb with its auxiliaries
What is a verb phrase?
Explain what rhetorical techniques JFK uses to connect with his audience in the Inaugural Address.
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Prepositional phrase that modifies a verb
What is an adverb phrase?