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 (written response question), you must FIRST use what strategy to understand what the question is asking?
What is the DO/WHAT chart
How is theme determined?
THINK: How do you figure out what the theme of a text is?
What are character thoughts, feelings, and reactions (Think: S.T.E.A.L)
How a text/essay is organized is called a text's ________________________________
Think: What is another word for organize? To...
What is text structure
To trace something in a story means to...
Think: what action are you taking?
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 a DEEPER
What is meaning
The reason that an author writes a text is called
What is author's purpose (persuade, inform, entertain, etc.)
When asked to write a summary, you must...
What is give 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?"
Example: Choose the text evidence that "best" supports the claim.
What is choose the choice that connects to the question the most/more than the others
When you cite evidence, you must use
Think: how to start AND type of punctuation
Look at the "C" in RACES
What are introductory phrases (According to the text...) AND quotation marks
When a text does not explicitly (straight up) tell readers something, then readers are being asked to make _____________
What are inferences
In informational texts, authors use examples, lists, stories, etc. to do what
What is introduce or further explain information/details/concepts
When used in a question, the word "contribute" means
Example: How does the setting contribute to the overall meaning of the text?
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 are called...
What are reasoning/explanation