Multiple Choice
Skills: inference, summary, author's craft
Short Response
Vocabulary
Extended Response
100
This is a choice that seems like the answer but it is incorrect. You often get stuck between this choice and the correct answer.
What is the distractor?
100
A brief restatement of the article's important details and central ideas without an opinion
What is an objective summary
100
These are all the steps you need to take in order to answer a short response correctly:
What is Answer the question with a claim, Include Detail #1, Include Detail #2?
100
Authors use this to express ideas or experiences vividly and creatively. *hint: this connects to literary devices
What is figurative language?
100
This is how many points the extended response is worth
What is 4 points?
200
When you are unsure of the answer, you apply this strategy.
What is process of elimination?
200
This quote shows what characteristic: "I almost played myself into passing out just to win a basketball game," Jordan admitted later.
What is dedication (other possible answers must involve inference based on Jordan's actions and speech)
200
This short response below earned this score: His grandfather is a determined guy when it comes to building things. For example, "by the day of the wedding he had not quite finished the house, and so right after the ceremony he took his wife home and put her to work."
What is 1 point?
200
This vocabulary word describes words that produce a feeling for the reader. Example: New York is a lively, crammed, and busy city.
What is connotative meaning?
200
In order to answer all parts of the extended response question, you can use this strategy when planning out your response (especially if you feel stuck)
What is turn each bullet point into a paragraph?
300
Before you read the passage, it is recommended to do this strategy first.
What is reading and annotating the questions?
300
This author achieved this goal in his writing: "The boy lay on the sidewalk bleeding in the rain."
What is create the setting/build a mood/get readers predicting?
300
This phrase can be used when introducing a quote
What is "The text says,..."? (other possible answers include: "According to the text," and "In the passage it states,")
300
This literary device is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the word.
What is alliteration?
300
These are the four parts of the NYC DOE extended response rubric (hint: use the exact wording)
What is 1. Content and Analysis, 2. Command of Evidence, 3. Coherence, Organization and Style, 4. Control of Conventions
400
"The gray sky is confused and scurrying; It is rosy in spite of itself." What is the meaning of the figurative language used in these lines? A. The gray sky moves quickly back and forth in a very confused way. B. The gray sky has clouds moving across it, reflecting light from the setting sun. C. The gray sky reveals a developing a storm system that will soon bring rain.
What is B?
400
This genre describes a real moment in history but with a fictional story
What is historical fiction?
400
This short response below earned this score: In the passage, character traits of the grandfather are revealed through the use of the hammer. These character traits are that he was tough and hard-working. The grandfather always used his hammer to build anything he needed.
What is 1 point?
400
This literary device gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas.
What is personification?
400
If you do not compare both texts in your extended response, you cannot get higher than this score
What is a 2?
500
Based on the connotations of words such as splendor, calm, and sweet, what is the speaker's attitude toward the view of London in the morning? A. he admires the peace and beauty of the city scene. B. he prefers city sights to the valleys and hills of the country. C. he wishes that the river would flow quietly through the city. D. he hopes that the heart of the city will remain still and silent.
What is A?
500
This type (sub genre) of non-fiction is reflected in the passage below: "Tired, crabby or unfocused in class? It could be the food you are eating. The lack of healthy, tasty school lunch selections has recently become a problem in almost every elementary, middle and high school across the nation."
What is persuasive/argument essay?
500
This short response below earned this score: The author included lines 22-25 to show the reader how the house was important to the family. The text says, "like the way the doors would wave hello when we passed through them". This shows the house had a friendly feeling. The text also says, "That house would always be there for the family". This shows that the house was an important and permanent part of the family's life.
What is 2 pts?
500
Name two literary devices: My Monster My monster's eyes are as red as rubies glistening in the sun. His eyes are like burning coal. They're full of fury. My monster has blood dripping from his razor-sharp spikes. His spikes are as sharp as sharks' teeth.
What are simile and alliteration?
500
These are the names of all the paragraphs of your extended response
What is introduction, (body) paragraph 1, (body) paragraph 2, (body) paragraph 3, and conclusion
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