Vocabulary/
Test Terminology
Skills
Short Answer Response
Extended Response
Surprise!
100
to break down the parts
What is to analyze?
100
What is plot? Name the 5 processes in a plot.
The events in a story. Exposition (Intro), Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution (conclusion)
100
What is the best strategy to answer a short answer response question?
What is RADC?
100
Where do you find what your introduction paragraph should include? What must you make sure is included in your intro?
In the task question top part. Author and title, CLEAR thesis or claim if necessary.
100
The word monotonous most closely means? -annoying -puzzling -boring -relaxing
boring
200
to plunge into a liquid, drench
What is to douse?
200
The moral or lesson of a story
What is theme?
200
How many textual details must be included in a SAR question?
2 or more!
200
What is the minimum number of paragraphs you will ever have in an extended response question? What are they?
3: Intro, Body, Conclusion
200
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
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300
What does the word inept mean?
totally without skill or appropriateness
300
What does it mean to make an inference?
educated guess: what the text says plus my background knowledge = a new idea (inference)
300
Which quote is irrelevant to the question: How can small items lost in space be dangerous? 1. "items traveling at 17,000 miles per hour, and with this high speed, even what seems like a small harmless item can actually be very dangerous." 2. "In 184, a power screwdriver was dropped by James Hoften, and it too joined the cosmis clutter." 3. "a tiny paint speck that cut a hole in the window glass of a space shuttle."
2. "In 184, a power screwdriver was dropped by James Hoften, and it too joined the cosmis clutter."
300
How would this essay be set up?: In the passage, Rose Oneil is described as the Confederacy's Master spy. What kinds of things did she do to get that title? Use evidence from the passage to write an argument for why she was the Confederacy's master spy. In your response be sure to do the following: -describe things that Rose did as a spy - explain how each supports the idea that she was the Confederacy's master spy -use details from the passage in your response
Answers may vary
300
What figurative language is in the following: Jim is so quiet and quick, he would be called a sly fox.
What is a metaphor?
400
What does the word vocation mean? Put it into a sentence as well.
any trade, profession, or occupation. After many years of schooling, she found her true vocation as a lawyer.
400
What is point of view? Tell the 4 kinds and what they are.
The way the narrator tells a story. First person = I, Second = you. Third limited = he or shes actions and thoughts. Third omnicient = all knowing of all characters thoughts and actions.
400
Read the following, then create a SAR for the question below it. . Lionfish are popular saltwater aquarium fish all over the world, but especially in the United States. Nowadays, they also live in Atlantic waters off the East Coast of the United States. These lionfish are what scientists call an invasive species or an “alien invader.” Local divers off the coast of North Carolina were not expecting to see what they found one day in August 2002—they spotted the exotic and beautiful lionfish, common to the warm waters of the western Pacific, but unknown at that time as residents of the Carolina coast. Q: Why do Scientists call the lionfish an alien invader (line 6)?
Scientists call the lionfish an alien invader because it is not normally found in the area they looked. The lionfish is not native to the east coast, and scientists were suprised by what they found since they are common to the warm waters. They were spotted in 19 different locations off the Carolina coasts. This is why the lionfish is called an alient invader.
400
What is the most points you can get on an extended response question?
4
400
What figurative language is in the following? What does this mean? The grass is not always greener on the other side.
What is an idiom? It means that you may want what others have, but what they have may not be as good as you had thought or as you already have.
500
What does the word 'tactic' mean?
established method of achieveing a goal.
500
What is an authors argument and what is the purpose of an authors argument?
the way the author presents the material, PIE!
500
Read the following, then answer in SAR form: According to lines 1 through 9, what was one problem with Troy’s defense against the Greeks? The Greeks besieged the city of Troy for nearly ten years. They could not take it because the walls were so high and strong—some said that they had been built by the hands of gods—but they kept the Trojans inside. This had not always been so. There had been a time when the Trojans had gone out and fought with their enemies on the plain, sometimes they had beaten them in battle, and once they had very nearly burnt their ships. But this was all changed. They had lost some of the bravest of their chiefs, such as Hector, the best of the sons of Priam, and Paris the great archer, and many great princes, who had come from the countries round about to help them.
Answers may vary.
500
What is also very important when writing the essay? (Meaning what will they be checking also?)
Spelling, grammer, punctuation, indented paragraphs, capitilzation of sentences, names, places, cities, etc.
500
What are the similarities and differences between a primary source and a secondary source?
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