Skills
What is conflict?
What is Central Idea?
The strategy you should use to structure/compose a short response.
What is RACE?
RESTATE
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CITE
EXPLAIN
The purpose of an introduction.
What is to grab the reader's attention and explain what you will be writing about in your essay?
The person speaking and the place where the story takes place.
What is narrator and setting?
Your body paragraphs in your essay MUST include this many pieces of evidence from the texts.
What is at least 2 pieces of evidence per body paragraph?
The different types of point of views and their definitions.
What is
First Person: my, I, me — narrator, author’s story
Third Person: he, she, they — outside perspective
Third Person Limited: outside perspective on only one person
Third Person Omniscient: outside perspective on multiple people.
Giving inanimate objects human like qualities
What is a personification?
Poets use this methods to say certain phrases and words again and again to emphasize something important.
What is repetition?
The purpose of your conclusion.
What is to summarize your ideas?
A prediction or a guess about the story based on what you already know.
What is an inference?
"Hard work and patience pay off in the end" is an example of this.
What is theme?
Poetry is written in this form of lines.
What are stanzas?
You must ALWAYS do this AFTER you cite evidence from the text!!
What is explain?
The expected number of paragraphs of an extended response. List each part of an essay.
What is 4-5 and Introduction, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusion?
The difference between tone and mode.
What is tone is from the feelings of the author, while mood is from the feelings of the reader.
A type of descriptive language used to convey meaning in a way that differs from its literal meaning. Includes similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, allusions, and idioms
What is figurative language?
The stages of the plot diagram and definition for each stage.
Exposition: introduction of characters, setting, and conflict.
Rising Action: events and problems that develop the conflict.
Climax: is the most important or exciting event. The characters change.
Falling Action: events that help resolve the conflict. Characters find a solution to their problem.
Resolution: end of the conflict/story. Characters resolve their conflict.
When restating a complex question, most students actually forget this step. Comes after R in RACE.
What is Answer?
If your essay prompt is an argument, it must include these 4 elements.
What is a claim, reasoning, counterclaim, and evidence?