CBA Review

Drama

100

What are stage directions?

This is the term for the instructions in a script that tell the actors how to move or behave on stage.

200

What is dialogue?

A conversation between 2 or more people.

300

Define playwright.

The author of the play.

400

List the plot elements.

exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

500

Name 3 structural elements that you would need to analyze this genre?

Plot map, character development, theme, stage directions, narrator, dialogue,problem-solution

Informational

100

What is the authors purpose for informational text?

Inform

200

What is the first thing you do when you have an informational passage?

THIEVES

300

When do you annotate when you have an informational passage?

Every 1st sentence when doing THIEVES.

400

Part A) What is a topic sentence?

Part B) What is the purpose of a topic sentence?

Part A) The first sentence of every paragraph

Part B) Tells the reader what the rest of the paragraph is going to be about.

500

What are 4 synonyms that mean what the text is mostly about?

main idea

controlling idea

central idea

thesis

Poetry

100

What is the authors purpose for poetry?

To inform OR entertain

200

How do you annotate poetry?

Per stanza

300

Give one type of figurative language and an example.

Similie

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Onamatopeia

Alliteration

Personification

400

What is imagery?

When you are able to picture what is going on in your mind.

500

Part A) What is an inference? 

Part B)What two things do you need to make an inference?

Part A) an educated guess

Part B) Background knowledge + Text clues

Fiction

100

What graphic organizer can readers use to organize the events of the story?

Plot map

200

What is theme?

Message or lesson of the story.

300

What is the organizational pattern for fiction?

Sequential/ Chronological

400

Explain character development.

How the character changes throughout the story

500

What are the 2 types of conflict a character can experience in fiction?

Internal and External conflict.

Argumentative

100

What is the authors purpose for argumentative text?

To persuade

200

What is a claim?

Author clearly states their opinion or what they want the reader to believe.

300

What is a counterclaim?

claim made to oppose or refute another claim

400

What is the difference between reasons and evidence in argumentative text?

Reasons can be used to back up a claim, but may not be able to be proven as true.

Evidence means it is true, and can be backed up.

500

What are logical fallacies?

Errors in reasoning that undermine the logic of an argument.