General SAS
Reading
Story Arc
Figurative Language
Random ELA
100
What can you use to highlight and take notes in SAS?
The highlighter tool and the notepad tool
100
What is the setting of a story?
Where and when the story takes place
100
This part of the story gives us the setting, characters and sometimes the conflict.
The exposition of a story
100
To use strong exaggeration
hyperbole
100
What's wrong with this sentence?
my cat is named harry
M in My needs to be capitalized
H in Harry needs to be capitalized.
Period is needed at the end of the sentence.
200
What do you need to bring for SAS (5 things)?
Charged computer
Charger
Headphones
Independent reading book
Pencil
200
The message or lesson of the story
Theme
200
The turning point of the story
The climax
200
Giving human characteristics to something that is not human
personification
200
To give a short explanation that only includes the most important parts.
Summarize
300
Where can your phone be during SAS?
OFF!
At home, in your locker, or on your teacher's desk.
300
The problem of the story
conflict
300
What is the difference between the rising action and the falling action?
The rising action is filled with the events in the story leading up to the climax, while the falling action is filled with the events in the story after the climax.
300
She is busy as a bee.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Simile
300
Pairing what you read with what you know to make an educated guess
Making an inference/inferencing
400
What do you do if you are not sure of your answer?
Mark the question for review and fix it later.
400
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective
First Person
400
This is the last part of the story that wraps it up.
What is the resolution?
400
It is raining cats and dogs.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Idiom
400
What is a synonym for tired?
sleepy, exhausted, etc.
500
What is the max amount of time you can pause your test?
20 minutes
500
Explain the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction = not real/made up
Nonfiction = topic, factual, provides information
500
List all the elements in a plot diagram:
Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
500
Life is a highway.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Metaphor
500
What is an antonym for happy?
Angry, sad, mad, upset, etc