Text Structure
Writing
Question Types
Fiction
Wild Card
Nonfiction
Poetry
Drama
Persuasive Text and Literary Devices
100
First hand accounts of events such as, diaries, letters, or oral histories.
Primary Source
100
DOUBLE POINTS
What is a SCR? How much do you write? How do you start your first sentence? What else do you include?
Short Constructed Response
2-3 sentences, R.A.C.E
Use as many words from the question to start your first sentence, then answer it.
YOU MUST INCLUDE EVIDENCE/QUOTE
100
If a question asks, "What is paragraph 5 mainly about?" What is it asking for?
Main idea
100
Fiction
Tells a story and has a plot
100
What is Ms. McKnight's favorite animal?
Otter
100
Purpose for writing nonfiction
Inform or Persuade
100
First step when reading a poem
Analyze the Title
100
Usually who we consider to be the "good guy" in a story
Protagonist
100
The central argument or claim an author or speaker is trying to convince their audience to agree with or believe.
Premise
200
Events told in a specific order
Sequential
200
If a question has "Write a well-organized..." you know this will be what?
ECR (extended constructed response). "Write a well-organized" should be your hint that this will be your essay prompt.
200
Sticks to the main points, not too many details, no fluff
Summary
200
Narrator tells the events only (He, She, They)
3rd Person Objective
200
What is Ms. McKnight's favorite drink?
Dr. Pepper
200
Represent two types of text structures
Spatial and Description
200
Read at least
Three times
200
Usually in parentheses () or italicized. This allows the reader to visualize the setting or aspects of a story not expressed through dialogue
Staging
200
Two contradictory terms used side-by-side to describe something.
Oxymoron
300
Information is organized by listing information based on importance.
Order of Importance
300
TRIPLE POINTS
What is an ECR? How much should you write? How do you start? What do you HAVE to include?
Extended Constructed Response
4 paragraphs (introduction, body 1, body 2, and conclusion)
Use as many words from the prompt to start your first sentence.
Include TEXT EVIDENCE/QUOTE
300
This question: The reader can conclude that ... Is asking the reader to what?
Make an inference
300
Character
Anything with thoughts and feelings and interacts with others
300
What is the name of at least 1 of Ms. McKnight's dogs.
Peeta
Aspyn
Lilli
300
Probably true, cannot be proven, not measurable
Commonplace Assertion
300
How the author comes across in a text(poem)
Tone
300
The events of the story are told in the order they occurred in time.
(exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion)
Linear Plot Development
300
A short and concise statements of general truth.
Aphorism
400
To restate each idea presented in a text using your own words.
Paraphrase
400
A complete sentence is made up of..
Proper Capitalization
Proper Punctuation
A complete thought
Has a subject and a verb
400
One strategy for answering vocabulary context clue questions is
Read the text surrounding the word for hints about its meaning
400
Summary
Somebody - Character
Wanted - Motivation
But - Conflict
So - Climax
Then - Conclusion
400
What month is Ms. McKnight's birthday?
June
400
Claims not based on sound reasoning, misleading
Logical Fallacies
400
The feeling a reader gets while reading a text(poem)
Mood
400
The events of the story are not revealed to the reader in the order they occurred in time.
Nonlinear Plot Development
400
When the author or speaker avoids the main argument by presenting related but irrelevant points.
Red Herring
500
Information is organized by describing a space. Describes what a space looks like.
Spatial
500
In SCR and ECR questions you must.
Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
Have complete sentences.
Be organized in you writing.
500
The moral of a story, or the life lesson the author wants the reader to understand
Theme
500
Nonlinear Plot Elements
Foreshadowing
Flashbacks
In Medias Res
500
What is Ms. McKnight's favorite class period?
7th Period
500
A fallacy that attempts to get an emotional reaction from the audience
Emotional Appeals
500
Has a rhyme scheme of AABBA
Limerick
500
A type of monologue when a character speaks their thoughts aloud TO THEMSLEVES AND ONLY THE AUDIENCE CAN HEAR. This creates dramatic irony because the audience knows more than the other characters.
Soliloquy
500
When authors or speakers make claims in which a conclusion is made that is not based on logical reasoning. When we stop and think about their reasoning, it does not logically (or thoughtfully) make sense.
Logical Fallacies