Test Strategies
This will help you feel comfortable while sitting in a cold hard desk for hours on end.
What is Dress Comfortably?
This triangular shaped diagram maps out most stories.
What is a plot diagram?
This will inform you what the text will be about before you even read it.
What is a title?
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
This is Ms. Garbett's favorite color
What is green?
Before you read those long passages/texts/stories, you should read these first.
What are the questions?
This is when a protagonist has an issue they must overcome.
What is conflict?
This can usually be found in the first sentence of a paragraph.
What is the Main Idea?
"Splash" "Clunk" "pop" and "boing" are all examples of...
What is onomatopoeia?
This is where Ms. Garbett grew up and went to school.
What is Southern California/San Bernardino?
Taking notes, highlighting sections, and making comments about things I have read.
What is annotation?
In The Outsiders, Ponyboy's appearance and personality is described mostly through his own narration. This is an example of...
What is direct characterization?
These relevant sentences support the Main Idea of a text.
What are supporting details?
The streetlights guided us back home that night.
(What is this an example of?)
What is Personification?
This is where Ms. Garbett spent her Spring Break this year.
What is Disneyland?
If you come across a word you are not familiar with, you can use this to find the definition.
What is a dictionary?
When feelings in a story change with the events or emotions of the characters, this is an example of ____ in a story.
What is mood?
This is something you can do while you read to help you remember the important parts.
What is summarizing?
"Leaf subsides to leaf/so Eden sank to grief" is an example of ______ in the Robert Frost poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay".
(Hint: Eden means paradise)
What is an Allusion?
How many kids does Ms. Garbett have and how old are they?
After reading a passage about a historical event, you are asked to put events in order from first to last (oldest to newest). This is called...
What is a sequence of events?
When the narrator knows everything about the characters in the story but is not part of the story, this is known as...
What is 3rd person (omniscient) POV?
Good readers can make observations about something that is not obvious by doing this. (AKA reading between the lines).
What is an inference?
This is a writing technique authors use in stories, songs, or poems to create strong imagery or references for the reader.
What is Figurative Language?
These are the three colleges/universities Ms. Garbett attended.
What is Weber State University, The U of U, and Westminster College?