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Test Taking Skills
What a Character!
Beyond the Lines
Order, Order!
POV
100
While reading questions, what should you do?
Answer: Underline/highlight key words and phrases.
100
a struggle between a character and him/her self.
What is internal conflict?
100
What is an inference?
Answer: a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
100
A pattern of organization that shows the order of steps or stages in a process.
What is chronological order
100
the narrator is the character in the story and uses “I”, “me,” and “ we”
What is first person point of view?
200
What types of questions should you find textual evidence for?
Answer: All questions
200
a writer tells the reader what a character is like
What is direct characterization?
200
Money does not bring happiness and those who have money should share it with the less fortunate.
What is theme?
200
The turning point of the story
What is climax?
200
the narrator knows the thoughts, ideas, and feelings of one character.
What is 3rd person limited?
300
Rather than selecting the right answer, you should _________ ___________ answers. (2 words)
What is eliminate and wrong?
300
How does a writer show indirect characterization? You must get 3/5.
What is: words actions appearance thoughts and feelings relationships with other character
300
A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself.
What is symbol?
300
The beginning of the story, introducing setting and characters.
What is exposition?
300
Chris slowly walked up to Elma with his hands behind his back. “So… you want to go with me,” he said with a stutter. Elma blushed. “Ok.” Chris smiled.
What is 3rd person objective point of view?
400
Often there are two wrong answers, and two ______ answers in which one is _________. (2 words)
What is right and best?
400
the reason why people (characters) do the things they do.
What is motivation?
400
Example: The dog hung its tail between its legs and slowly walked up to me. I noticed a puddle on the kitchen floor. Make one inference.
The dog had an accident.
400
The part of the plot that occurs after the turning point or climax.
What is falling action?
400
Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?” So she was considering, in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
Answer: Third-person limited
500
Slow down and _________ your answers.
What is double-check/review?
500
Example: He walked into the room, his eyes twitching. His hands were shaking, and he avoided eye contact. As usual, Steven kept is head down, refusing to greet any of his classmates. Steven quietly slipped into his desk, hopeful to disappear in the background.
What is indirect characterization?
500
The person telling the story.
What is narrator?
500
The ending of a plot line?
What is resolution?
500
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap. She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse, and she was feeling at ease. At noon time, Winnie Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience at last and decided to think about running away.
Answer: Third-Person Omniscient