ELA CC Exam
The exam date
What is June 14?
Conflict
What is a struggle between two forces?
dividing up text so that the comprehension is easier
What is "chunking" or "dividing text"?
Genre
What is Plays, novels, poetry?
A type of literature that has shortened lines, sometimes including rhyme
What is a poem?
pen & pencil
What should I bring to the exam?
Central idea
What is the Overall message of the story
Margin
Where should you write on the page for the readings keeping track of your comprehension?
setting
What is time and place?
story that is based on real events
What is nonfiction?
Highlighter
What is an optional item I can bring to the exam?
Actions / feelings of character and how others treat him / her
What is Characterization?
Text #, line #
What is the proper way to cite text?
Point of view
What is Perspective from which a story is presented?
story with made up characters / plot
What is Fiction?
How many parts are there on the ELA CC exam?
Using 5 senses to show an image or provide a
picture in one’s head while reading
What is imagery?
Explain the quote
What should you do after you quote material and cite the quote in your essay?
Tone
What is Author’s attitude?
“My good man,” said the assistant manager, “Your hard luck is not my fault, nor this theatre’s responsibility. Please do not cause a disturbance. Now if both of you will leave the stage, we can go on with the other prizes and with the show.”
What is fiction?
56 points
What is the total of points on the exam?
metaphor
What is comparing two unlike
things not using like or as?
Put a star or asterisk in the margin
What is the suggested way to mark statistics in the argument essay?
Expect one thing to happen and the opposite
does
What is irony?
I’ve hunched so long above this puzzle
laid out on my gouged and ink-stained workbench,
I think, at last, it’s unsolvable,
that the only meaning it holds is told...
What is a poem?