Writing
Figurative Language
Test Terms
Strategies
Signal Words
100
What must be in a topic paragraph?
What is hook and thesis?
100
Giving human qualities to anything, but a human.
What is personification?
100
To select an answer from a number of possibilities.
What is multiple choice?
100
What is it called when you recap the most important parts of the text?
What is summary?
100
Locating specific information in the text.
What is identify?
200
You must ______ evidence from the passage.
What is cite?
200
Using like or as to describe two unlike things.
What is simile?
200
Giving supports to back up your answer.
What is evidence?
200
When you read the text to your self and write down questions that confuse you.
What is talking to the text?
200
Stating detailed information about an idea or concept.
What is describing?
300
You must _____ your topic.
What is paraphrase?
300
Repetition of the same starting consonants.
What is alliteration?
300
Giving similarities and differences between two things.
What is compare and contrast?
300
What is the series of events in a story?
What is plot?
300
Express understanding of an idea or concept?
What is explain?
400
What does R.A.T.F.S stand for?
What is R.role, A.audience, F.format, T.topic, S.strong words?
400
A comparison of two things without using like or as.
What is metaphor?
400
Giving further explanation of your topic.
What is a description?
400
What drives a story?
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action,resolution?
400
Retelling in your own words?
What is paraphrase?
500
Name any five essays.
What is narrative, descriptive, expository, cause and effect, classification?
500
Words that imitate a sound. (Ex.boom, bang, splash, drip)
What is onomatopoeia?
500
"Reading between the lines?
What is an inference?
500
What is literary non-fiction?
What is a genre of writing that includes biographies, journalism, and memories?
500
Words that indicate a question.
What is who, what, where, when, why, and how?
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