When you summarize or paraphrase what is going on in the text, and underline or highlight important information
What is chunking, marking, and annotating?
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The speaker in the story
What is a narrator?
200
A story that is based on factual or true events
What is literary non-fiction?
200
This tells the reader what the characters are doing or feeling, and can be found in the parentheses
What are stage directions?
200
How poems are plays are divided?
What is a line?
200
This strategy is your go to strategy. It can be applied to almost every question asked.
What is the true/false strategy?
300
This includes different types of literature
What is genre?
300
This genre usually has characters, dialogue, and can be charted in a plot diagram
What is fiction?
300
The conversation between characters in a play
What is dialogue?
300
A unit within a poem; paragraphs for poetry
What is a stanza?
300
This strategy is ONLY applied when the question is a summary question
What is the BME strategy?
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The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic
What is author's purpose?
400
This is the conclusion; how the conflict is resolved
What is the resolution?
400
This is who's in the play and often how they are related to one another
Who are characters?
400
Poems typically contain this, it is a comparison of two unlike things, without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
400
When reading this type of selection, you should read the first selection, then answer the questions that apply to it; read the second selection, then answer the remaining questions.
What is a paired passage?
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When an object is given human qualities or abilities
What is personification?
500
The good guy and the bad guy in the story
What is the protagonist and antagonist?
500
A composition in prose or verse presenting, contains dialogue; is a narrative involving conflict between a character or characters and some external or internal force; usually presented in three acts; usually performed in front of an audience
What is a drama or play?
500
This is made up of all the tools that a poet uses to crerate a special effect or feeling. It includes metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia.
What is figurative language?
500
This strategy should NEVER be applied in a testing environment, however, most students continue to do it.
What is answering the questions first, without reading the text.