Test Day!
What you should be sure to do the morning of the test.
What is eat a good breakfast?
When you cross out any answers you know are wrong, and choose from the answers that are left.
What is the process of elimination?
When two unlike objects are compared using "like" or "as." (The man was as tall as a mountain.)
What is a simile?
A life lesson learned through the characters' experiences.
What is the theme?
What a piece of text is mainly about.
What is the central idea?
The most important thing to do the night before the test.
What is get a good night's sleep?
What you should do if your answer doesn't match any of the answer choices.
What is reread the question and try again?
When an inanimate object is given characteristics of a person (The sky misses the sun at night.)
What is personification?
The main character in the story.
What is the protagonist?
A text that explains how two things are the same and different.
What is compare and contrast?
Rolling your shoulders and stretching.
What are ways to stay loose or relaxed during the test.
Before you read the articles and passages you should do this.
What is preview the questions?
An extreme exaggeration used to make a point. (We had to wait forever for our ride to come!)
What is hyperbole?
The sequence of events that make up a literary story.
What is the plot?
The text structure in which an author explains the steps to complete something.
What is sequence?
The last step before submitting your test.
What is check your answers and/or make sure you answered all questions?
Parts of the text that can help you if you don't know the meaning of a word.
What are context clues?
A comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use "like" or "as." (Life is a highway.)
What is a metaphor?
The type of character who changes over the course of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
What are text features?
To demonstrate your mastery of 6th grade reading standards.
What is why are we taking this test?
While reading, every couple of paragraphs you should stop and do this.
What is think about what you just read and ask yourself questions.
When two or more consecutive words begin with the same sound. (Wendy was wide-eyed and wondering while waiting.)
What is alliteration?
The point of view in which the narrator is telling the story as an outsider and knows only about the protagonist's thoughts, feelings, and motivations.
What is 3rd person limited?
A short retelling of the key ideas and details of the text.
What is a summary?