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poetry
What we've read
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Textual Evidence

What is what the text says? What is the details in the text that support an answer?

100
Define the word narrator?
Who is the person, animal or thing telling the story?
100
Thesis statement
What is the last sentence of the first paragraph that tells the reader what the essay is about?
100

What is the term given to the element when the initial sounds of a word, beginning either with a consonant or a vowel, are repeated in close succession?

Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.  

What is alliteration?
100
The author of "The House on Mango Street"
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
200
Inference
What is prior knowledge plus the details from the text?
200
What is character motivations?
What is why a character behaves a certain way or does a certain thing?
200
Each body paragraph must have these 3 things.
What is a topic sentence, at least 2 pieces of evidence and commentary?
200
Lines of poetry are divided into ___________
What are stanzas?
200
In "The Lottery", Mrs. Hutchinson participated in a lottery during which the "winner" was 
What is stoned to death?
300
Central Idea
What is the text mostly about?
300
When a reader "marks up a text", he is ___________.
What is annotating?
300

In this essay, you show how two things are alike or different

What is compare and contrast?
300
The wind whispered a sweet song. What is the literary device?
What is personification?
300
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by _____________.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
400
What is point of view?
What is a character's viewpoint on an issue/topic in the story?

What is 1st, 2nd or 3rd person?

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Define author's purpose
What is the reason why an author writes a text - persuade, inform, or entertain?
400
A counterargument is ________________________.
What is the claim that is opposite of the writer's claim?
400
You are the sun, the moon, the stars. 
What is a metaphor?
400
This ___________________ had an incredible impact on the lives of women.  It help usher a wave of freedom for women.
What is the bicycle?
500
The message that the author is trying to convey
What is theme?
500
What are the 5 ways a reader can find out who a character is?
What is 1. What a character says? 2. What a character says? 3. What is the character's effect on others? 4.  What are the character's actions and 5. How does the character look?
500

In this essay, things are presented according to the order in which they happened (1st, 2nd, 3rd)

What is chronological order?
500
A constructed response must include
What is an assertion, evidence and commentary?
500
a boy attempts to steal a purse from a woman
"What is Langston Hughes Thank You ma'am"?