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The bow shyly as wet swans.
What is a simile?
This is the piece of punctuation that ends sentences and are essential to your written response answers.
What are periods?
This is a topic.
What is a one word subject that is discussed throughout a story.
"I waited in line for a million hours until it was my turn."
Hyperbole
This is what you should do the night before the test and then what should you do the morning of the test.
What are a good nights sleep and good breakfast?
"Well, son, I'll tell you
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"
("Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes)
Is an example of which figurative language term?
What is a metaphor?
This is the number of sentences you should have in your constructed response.
What is 4-5 sentences?
This is the main idea of a story.
What is the plot or events that happened throughout the story summarized in one to two sentences.
"The tree branches danced in the wind."
Personification
This is what you need to do before coming to my classroom the morning of the EOC.
"Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere." (1984 by George Orwell)
Is an example of which figurative language term?
What is imagery?
This is the RACE method.
What is...
1. Restating your answer within your Answer
2. Citing evidence
3. Explaining how your evidence supports your answer.
This is the moral of a story.
What is a statement telling you to do something or not to do something.
"The drums were like a thunderstorm."
Simile
The number of reading texts and multiple choice questions you should focus on at a time.
What controls the reader's emotional response that reflects the author's purpose?
What is tone?
This is the theme of a story.
What is the message that the author is trying to convey through the story.
What is an overall statement about life or the human experience conveyed by the story.
The problem in a story: Ex. Man vs Nature
Conflict
This are the things you MAY NOT HAVE during the EOC.
What is a smart phone, smart watches, headphones, earbuds, and other technology.
Not everything is said directly in the text. You may need to make an...
What is an inference?
This is the most important step in the RACE method.
What is explaining how your evidence supports your answer!
Which of the following are a CORRECT theme:
Love is blind.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Love can triumph over all hate, selfishness, and cruelty.
Treat others as you want to be treated.
Love can triumph over all hate, selfishness, and cruelty.
"It's raining cats and dogs"
Idiom