Regents Basics
The date of the ELA regents
June 14th
The way an author reveals information about a character
characterization
At night, in my dream, I stoutly climbed a mountain, Going out alone with my staff of holly-wood.1
A thousand crags, a hundred hundred valleys—
In my dream-journey none were unexplored
And all the while my feet never grew tired And my step was as strong as in my young days
Poetry
“I hope none of your relatives—I hope you haven’t sustained a loss?” ventured Mr. Donovan.
“Death has claimed,” said Miss Conway, hesitating—“not a relative, but one who—but I will not intrude my grief upon you, Mr. Donovan.” “Intrude?” protested Mr. Donovan. “Why, say, Miss Conway, I’d be delighted, that is, I’d be sorry—I mean I’m sure nobody could sympathize with you truer than I would.”
dialogue
These 2 phrases are to be avoided at all costs
In my opinion
&
I think
The number of sections in the ELA regents
three
A message or life lesson the author attempts to communicate through their writing
A theme
The morning chill carried that clean-sheet crispness; that cleansing sort of air. Actually, for the tip of Long Island in early December, this weather was a little late in coming. But walking from our house to the shore of the bay, the new crystal air made me finally look ahead toward winter and turn my back to what had been a spectacular, lingering fall. Every autumn here witnesses two great migrations: one axiomatic and one nearly unknown. Everybody knows birds fly south for the winter. Here, the marshes and barrier islands are interstate arteries for heavy traffic of songbirds, waterfowl, hawks and others. But except for people who fish, almost no one realizes the greater migration begins just beyond the beach.
non-fiction (informational)
The candy melted in her mouth and swirls of bittersweet chocolate and slightly sweet but salty caramel blended together on her tongue.
Imagery
Cite this piece of evidence
(Text 2, lines 2-3.)
Where you identify a literary element or technique (device) in the passage, and describe how the author uses it to develop a major theme
Part 3
foreshadowing
For centuries, scientists had believed that the ocean floor was basically flat and featureless—it was too far beyond reach to know otherwise. But the advent of sonar had changed everything. For the first time, ships could “sound out” the precise depths of the ocean below them. For five years, Tharp’s colleagues at Columbia University had been crisscrossing the Atlantic, recording its depths. Women weren’t allowed on these research trips—the lab director considered them bad luck at sea—so Tharp wasn’t on board. Instead, she stayed in the lab, meticulously checking and plotting the ships’ raw findings, a mass of data so large it was printed on a 5,000-foot scroll. As she charted the measurements by hand on sheets of white linen, the floor of the ocean slowly took shape before her.
"She was not a good-looking woman, my sister; and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand. Joe was a fair man, with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face, and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites. He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow—a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness."
Direct Characterization
"It is true that college athletes already receive financial help with the use of scholarships and free rides. Yet, the risks they put themselves in on a daily basis is still greater than having a paid tuition. There is no scholarship or financial support that could make up for a fatal injury, but offering pay for their sports obligations could be a start."
counterclaim
The number of texts you are required to use in your essay
three
Descriptions that associate or compare distinct things (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole
figurative language
It had been noisy and crowded at the Milligan’s and Mrs. Bishop had eaten too many little sandwiches and too many iced cakes, so that now, out in the street, the air felt good to her, even if it was damp and cold. At the entrance of the apartment house, she took out her change purse and looked through it and found that by counting the pennies, too, she had just eighty-seven cents, which wasn’t enough for a taxi from Tenth Street to Seventy-Third. It was horrid never having enough money in your purse, she thought.
fiction
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life.
Conflict
The essence of your essay, showing up at the end of your introduction and supported throughout your body paragraphs.
Thesis Statement
The points breakdown for each regents section
24 - part 1
24 - part 2
8 - part 3
A struggle between opposing forces
conflict
But New York had so long resigned itself to Medora that only a few old ladies shook their heads over Ellen’s gaudy clothes, while her other relations fell under the charm of her high colour and high spirits. She was a fearless and familiar little thing, who asked disconcerting questions, made precocious comments, and possessed outlandish arts, such as dancing a Spanish shawl dance and singing Neapolitan love-songs to a guitar.
fiction
"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."
This makes up the majority of your essay, arguing your stance and explaining your sprinkles of evidence.
Analysis