Literary Texts
Point of view includes the author's __________ and ________________ on a topic
What are feelings and thoughts
Venn diagrams are used to show
What are similarities and differences
To explain means to
What is provide reasons
The answers to text dependent questions can be found where?
Where is the text
When answering a short constructed response, you must FIRST use what strategy to understand what the question is asking?
What is the DO/WHAT chart
How is theme determined?
What are character thoughts, feelings, and reactions (Think: S.T.E.A.L)
How a text is organized is called a text's ________________________________
What is text structure
To trace means
What is following from beginning to end
Before answering a question, you should annotate it for...
What are key words or phrases
When you restate AND answer the writing prompt, that is known as what part of the introduction paragraph?
What is a claim/thesis statement
Author's use figurative language to create
What is meaning
The reason that an author writes a text is called
What is author's purpose (persuade, inform, entertain, etc.)
A summary is
What is a short retelling of the key details in a text
When answer choices are obviously wrong or silly, the test taker should
What is cross out/process eliminate
What writing strategy can be used to help organize your writing to include a claim, evidence, and reasoning?
What is R.A.C.E.S. or C.E.R.
Writers make specific word choices (like imagery and figurative language) to create
What is mood and tone
How can central idea be determined?
What is through identifying the key details and the commonalities
Define theme
What does it mean when a question says "best?"
What is choose the choice that connects to the question the most/more than the others
Before citing evidence, you must use
What are introductory phrases (According to the text...) AND quotation marks
When a text does not explicitly tell readers something, then readers are being asked to make _____________
What are inferences
Examples, lists, stories, etc. can all be used by authors to do what?
What is introduce or explain information/details
When a question asks how a part of a text contributes to the overall text, what is it asking?
What is figure out how it HELPS
Before reading the text, what should test takers do?
The sentences that connect the evidence to the claim
What are reasoning/explanation