Common Multiple Choice Words and Phrases
When a text strongly hints at something, without explicitly stating it.
What is "to imply"?
The number of texts you must cite on the Argumentative Essay.
What is 3?
The format of the thesis of a Text Analysis Response.
What is the central idea and two writing strategies?
The way an author develops a character's personality through actions, words and description.
What is characterization?
The country from which all of our authors / texts originated from this year.
What is the USA?
The reason why the author is creating a text or including a key detail.
What is author's purpose?
The section of the argument essay where you address the opposite side.
What is the counterclaim?
Conflict , Characterization, Imagery and Tone.
What are the core four?
A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem.
What is conflict?
A strategy to support you with process of elimination.
What is trick, trash, treasure?
The prevailing message of a passage.
What is the central idea?
According to the rubric, this must be precise and insightful in order to earn a 6.
What is the claim?
The two elements you must connect your evidence back to in a Text Analysis Response.
What is the central idea and the writing strategy?
The literary term used for language and description that appeals to our five senses -- smell, sight, taste, touch, or hearing.
What is imagery?
The steps to this protocol include summarize, analyze and synthesize.
What is the 3 reads protocol?
A personal story used to reinforce an idea.
What is an anecdote?
Instead of saying "in the text, it states," you can use this more sophisticated phrase.
What is "the author states"?
Eight Points.
The attitude an author takes toward his or her subject, characters and readers.
What is tone?
This famous first lady advocated for women's rights in a letter to her husband.
Who is Abigail Adams?
Otherwise known as the "purpose" of a line in a text.
What is the "function"?
Introduction, Body Paragraph 1, Body Paragraph 2, Counterclaim & Rebuttal, Conclusion.
What is the format of an argument essay?
A way to start your central idea if the text has an overall positive connotation.
What is "the importance of..."?
Any object, person, place, or action that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value.
What is symbolism?
The author of "Because I could not stop for death".
Who is Emily Dickinson?