TEST VOCAB:direction words or critical words
As a team, read the definition and example before identifying the test DIRECTION word.
Definition: To briefly share the main points of something.
Example: "Which of the following best ________the author's opinion?"
What is SUMMARIZES?
Read aloud the following sentence AND read aloud the correct punctuation.
He laughed so she cried.
What is "He laughed COMMA so she cried"?
Use the correct form of there/their/they're for the following sentence:
_______going to take _______dog to the vet office over ________.
What is:
THEY'RE going to take THEIR dog to the vet office over THERE.
The problem the protagonist needs to solve in a literary work.
What is a CONFLICT?
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution are all part of this.
What is PLOT?
You are trying to identify a test DIRECTION word. Read the definition and examples before identifying the direction word.
Definition: to note the similarities and/or dissimilarities between things.
Here's an example of how you might see the word on WY-TOPP:
"_____ the tones of passages 1 and 2."
"______ the character of Stephanie with her friend, Cheryl."
What is COMPARE/CONTRAST?
If a FANBOYS sentence were a mathematical equation, what would it look like?
What is "subject verb, FANBOYS subject verb"?
Using the "he laughed, she cried" idea, recite the 3A sentence pattern--and read aloud the punctuation.
He laughed; however, she cried.
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is DENOTATION?
Definition: A scene that breaks the plot's chronology to show a past event.
What is FLASHBACK?
As a team, read the definition and example, then identify the test DIRECTION word.
Definition: To figure something out by using evidence and reasoning; making an "educated guess,"; "reading between the lines."
What is INFER?
Read the following 3A sentence and include the correct punctuation.
He laughed however she cried.
Edit the following:
Him and me went to her choir concert. She sings good.
HE and I went to her choir concert. She sings WELL.
In addition to the dictionary definition of a word, _______includes the negative or positive feelings that a word evokes.
What is CONNOTATION?
Definition: The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will happen later in the plot.
What is FORESHADOWING?
As a team, read the definition and example, then identify the test DIRECTION word.
Definition: To give the literal meaning of something.
Example: "__________the word 'fast' as it is used in the context of line 3.'"
What is DEFINE?
The process of elimination will help you figure out how to punctuate an unfamiliar connecting word. If the word isn't a FANBOYS and it isn't a SWABI/UBITWEBS, it will be _______________.
What is a THAMO word?
The three brothers forgetfulness always made them late for school.
A) NO CHANGE
B) brother's forgetfulness
C) brothers' forgetfulness
D) brothers and their forgetfulness
What is C? brothers' forgetfulness.
Definition: Parallelism used to show contrast.
Example: "My only love sprung from my only hate."
What is ANTITHESIS?
"Deafening silence," "bittersweet," and "organized chaos" are examples of this.
What is OXYMORON?
As a team, read the definition and example, then identify the test DIRECTION word.
Definition: "To communicate an idea; to carry an idea or message across to the reader."
Example: How does the author ______ the theme of this passage?
What is CONVEY?
As a team, recite the entire SWABI/UBITWEBS...acronym.
Unless, because, if, though, while, even if, before, since, in order to, when, whenever, where, wherever, even though, so that, after, although, as, as if, as soon as, as long as, whether, until.
Collecting seashells on the beach, the sunset was beautiful.
A) NO CHANGE
B) the sunset was beautiful.
C) it was a beautiful sunset.
D) I watched the beautiful sunset.
What is D? I watched the beautiful sunset.
Hint: The word TYPE in stereotype should help you remember what STEREOTYPES IN LITERATURE are called.
Examples: The socially awkward gamer, the tired teacher, the dumb jock, etc.
What is an ARCHETYPE?
Definition: A statement that seems to be a contradiction but actually reveals a truth.
Example: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
What is PARADOX?