Teacher Choice
Literary Terms
Multiple Choice
Short Response
Extended Response
100

Name three transitional PHRASES

Responses will vary

100

A comparison using "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

100
POE stands for...
What is Process of Elimination?
100

The strategy you should use to structure/compose a short response.

What is RACES?

100

This is the first step you should take, before you even begin to write.

What is decide on your claim?

200

the first thing you should follow and let it be your guide while you are writing.

What is the writing prompt?

200
"The typical teenage boy's room is a disaster area" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
200
What you should physically be doing while answering multiple choice questions.
What is flipping the page back and forth?
200

The expected length of your short response.

What is 2-4 paragraphs?

200

The place where your claim goes.

Before or after your hook in the first paragraph

300

Where can you find a lot of information that is important before you actually read the story?

Variety of answers

300
A reference to external content (like the one we found in "A Poem for my Librarian...").
What is an allusion?
300

What it looks like when you're using Process of Elimination.

What is slashed out choices?

300
The number of pieces of evidence that you are expected to supply.
What is 2?
300

The purpose of your conclusion.

What is to reiterate or restate your claim?

400

The text says + What I think + reading in between the lines

What is an inference?

400

When a writer gives a hint of what's to come.

What is foreshadowing?

400

Where would find the writing prompt

A. In the instructions

B. Not found on test

C. At the end of the story

400
The technique in which you don't quote exactly from the text, but say the same thing in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
400

The expected number of paragraphs of an extended response.

What is 6-8?

500
The difference between tone and mode.
What is perspective? (Tone is from the perspective of the author, while mood is from the perspective of the reader)
500

The opposite of what is expected with a bit of sarcasm

What is irony?

500

What will almost instantly kick your writing up to a college level four ?

What is using a variety of sophisticated phrases ?

500

When restating a complex question in the instructions, most students actually forget this step.

What is stating the claim?

500

The step that most writers skip.

What is proofreading?

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