Text Analysis
The main two requirements of a text analysis response are...
What are the central idea and writing strategy/literary element?
Strategy which you can use to help you explain and analyze text evidence
What is Say, Mean, Matter?
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is a conflict?
The capital of New York.
What is Albany?
The three parts of the ELA regents exam are...
What is Multiple Choice, Argumentative Essay, and Text Analysis Response?
The lesson or message of the story
What is the central idea?
The beginning and ending to your argumentative essay.
What is the introduction and conclusion?
The way a character is described according to a text/story.
What is characterization?
The strongest and heaviest land canivore ever to exist.
What is the Tyrannosaurus Rex?
Strategy used to help you write the the context for any essay.
What are the 5Ws?
Some examples include characterization, imagery conflict, setting, etc.
What is the literary element or writing strategy?
A claim made to go against your original claim
What is a counterclaim?
The use of the five senses to create mental pictures for the reader
What is imagery?
Number #11 on the NY Knicks
Who is Jalen Brunson?
You must use ___ texts when writing your argumentative essay.
What are 3 texts?
Putting info from a passage into your own words.
What is "paraphrasing"?
The number of minimal paragraphs in the argumentative essay for the ELA regents.
What is 5 paragraphs?
Examples include character vs. character, character vs. nature, character vs. society, etc.
What is external conflict?
Ms. Camera's birthday month
What is January?
There are ____ multiple choice questions on the ELA regents exam.
What is 24?
According to the ELA regents exam rubric, the highest possible grade you can get on a text analysis response is...
What is 4/4?
According to the ELA regents argumentative rubric, this is the highest score you can get.
What is 6/6?
Showing details about a character through their speech, thoughts, and actions
What is indirect characterization?
Where Mr. Plesac is from
What is Buffalo, NY?
A multiple choice strategy where you remove incorrect answers to make a better guess
What is process of elimination?