Skills
The central idea can usually be found here.
What is the first and/or last paragraph of the text.
Crossing out answers you know are not correct.
What is Process of Elimination?
RACECES is...
Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain, Cite, Explain, Summarize.
The amount of paragraphs you usually should have in a short response (at least).
What is 4?
Author's purpose can be broken down into three categories, which are...
What is Persuade, Inform, or Entertain?
"Life is a highway".
What is a metaphor?
What you do when the question is written like "In paragraph 3 the word connection most likely means?"
What is go back to paragraph 3 in the text?
The amount of evidence needed in any paragraph (AT LEAST).
What is 2?
The difference between 3rd person limited and 3rd person omniscient narration.
What is the narrator knows the thoughts of all characters or just one character?
When something is described as a person and takes on human qualities.
What is personification?
For each question, you should always refer...
What is back to the text?
TAG stands for...
What is Title, Author, Genre?
Things that go in your introduction in order.
What is hook, TAG, claim (restate and answer)?
Making an educated guess about what is to come in a text based on evidence.
What is an inference?
Set of expectations New York State has for students that you have been learning for the past few weeks.
What is a standard?
In your explanation you must always refer to...
What is your answer/ claim?
"Quote bombing" is...
What is not introducing a quote/ starting a sentence with a quote and nothing else?
The difference between tone and mood.
What is tone is the author's attitude towards the subject and mood is the feeling the reader gets?
What to use when you do not know what a word means during an exam.
What is context clues?
When you have cited your evidence the next step is to...
What is explain?
Parts of the essay when you relating/analyzing evidence back to your original claim.
What is explain?