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100
Identify three nouns in the following sentence: Duncan is a fluffy, little shih tzu who loves to frolic and play in the snow.
What is Duncan, shih tzu, snow
100
What is the difference between a simile and metaphor?
What is similes use the words like or as to compare things. Metaphors do not use like or as in comparisons.
100
What poetic device is shown in the following sentence: The stars twinkled like diamonds in the clear night sky.
What is simile.
100
Before you start writing your response, you MUST do what?
What is make and fill out an organizer (and clearly understand the question, of course).
100
What is the first thing you read when you begin a new passage?
What are the sentences in italics at the top of the page above the title.
200
Identify two adjectives in the following sentence: The warm coffee tasted extra delicious during the cold morning.
What is warm, delicious and/or cold
200
What poetic device is demonstrated below: Sally sells seashells by the sea shore.
What is alliteration.
200
This word is used for groups of lines in a poem. They are the paragraphs of poetry.
What is stanza
200
What is the fewest number of reasons/pieces of evidence you need in a response?
What is three.
200
If you see a word that has a little number (like an exponent) next to it, what does that mean/what can you do?
What is it is defined on the bottom of the page.
300
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence: The children busily completed their work in order to play outside.
What are completed, play
300
Give two examples of onomatopoeia.
What is buzz, pop, crackle, etc.
300
What poetic device is demonstrated in the following sentence: The trees danced in the breeze and whispered kind words to me as I walked through the park.
What is personification
300
After you find a quote in the text that supports your answer, what do you need to do if you want the 4.
What is EXPLAIN how the quote answers the question.
300
What are three different genres of passages you may encounter on the MCAS?
What are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for a play
400
Name six prepositions.
What are about, above, across, after, against, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, out, outside, over, since, through, throughout, till, to, toward, under, until, up
400
Define personification.
What is giving human characteristics to something that isn't human
400
This is a way to compare objects in an exaggerated way. For example, "It was so cold my fingers became icicles!"
What is hyperbole.
400
Besides first, second, last....name three other transition words you could use as you move between reasons/examples.
What is another, next, similarly, on the other hand, also, finally...
400
What is the "fan effect?" Why should Ms. Anderson and Ms. Cucci see the lovely kids in 5A using the "fan effect" during the MCAS?
What is flipping pages to go back and look in the text for answers to questions. You do not want to rely on your memory. You should reread sections of the passage several times.
500
Identify the adverbs, conjunctions and pronouns in the sentence below: She quickly and quietly grabbed the book of the shelf, but Mrs. Ewenstein wouldn't allow me to check it out.
What is adverbs=quickly, quietly conjunctions= and, but pronouns= she, it
500
What is theme?
What is the big idea/message of the story.
500
What is rhyme scheme?
The pattern of rhyming words that come at the end of lines (AABB, ABAB, ABCB)
500
The following words have appeared in many recent open response questions: challenge, entertaining, informative, author's message, significant, communicate. What do each of these words mean?
What is challenge:something difficult, hard to do entertaining: fun, interesting informative: teaches you facts author's message: theme, big ideas, lesson significant: important communicate: express, "talk"
500
In a nonfiction passage, where can you learn information besides the body of the passage? Name three different places/text features where you should look.
What is in captions, pictures, maps, diagrams, text boxes, timelines and headings (subtitles).