LITERARY DEVICES
The time and place that a story takes place
What is setting?
The date the STAAR test for English I will be on.
What is April 5th?
What you must do to correct the following:
"Mrs Jackson added bread eggs and milk to her grocery list"
What is punctuate? (Add periods after "Mrs" and at the end. Add commas after "bread" and "eggs.")
"She is as cool as a cucumber."
What is a simile?
The written portion of the test.
What is an expository essay?
The three things a thesis is made up of
What is one main idea and two subtopics/reasons?
On the writing section, I should look at this part before reading the quotation provided
What is the prompt/the "Write" statement?
The correct pronoun to use in the following sentence:
"He/Him and Javier went to the movies."
What is he?
"The tree branches danced in the wind."
What is the personification?
The main point or message of a story/poem
What is the theme?
What you use when you don't know the definition of a word.
What is use a dictionary?
What you need to do to check for capitalization, punctuation, usage, and spelling at the end of your essay
What is revise and edit?
Making notes and summaries in the margin of a text
What is annotation?
The two words needing a semi-colon to separate them in the following sentence:
"I have saved $2000 since starting my part-time job I plan to use it for a down payment on a new car."
What are "job" and "I"?
"Sally sells seashells by the seashore"
What is alliteration?
The only two things you can do after you finish the test
What is read a book or take a nap?
Restating my thesis, summarizing my points, and adding a final thought/call to action
What is a conclusion paragraph?
The order I must complete the different sections of the test
What is whatever order I choose?
The change that needs to made in the following sentence:
"Mary have no idea what to wear to the dance."
What is change "have" to "has"?
"You’re acting like such a Scrooge!"
What is an allusion?
The point of view offered in the following: "Mary had twelve little lambs and she loved each and every one."
What is third person limited?
The amount of time you have to take the English I STAAR assessment
What is 5 hours?
A paragraph that includes a personal experience or something you've seen
What is the body paragraph?
The strategy we use to analyze parts of poetry
What is the TWIST strategy?
Correct the slang words to formal writing:
"I wanna see the new horror movie, so Jacob and I are gonna go tonight."
What is change "wanna" and "gonna" to "want to" and "going to."
"There were a million people in line in front of me to see the new Avengers movie."
What is a hyperbole?
The most intense part of a story/where the conflict gets resolved
What is the climax?
The five different scores you can get on the expository essay
What is a 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4?
Name three of the four types of Hooks you can use at the start of your essay
What is:
1. Quote
2. Definition
3. Imagine Statement
4. Snapshot
Finding these can help you find the tone of a passage or poem (Hint: positive or negative)
What are connotational words?
Correct the following sentence:
"Whether is one cause of famine but political strife is another cause."
What is change "Whether" to "Weather" and add a comma between "famine" and "but"?
"You are the sun, moon, and stars to me."
What is a metaphor?
Using touch, taste, sight, sound, or hearing to create pictures in the mind of the reader
What is imagery?
The time you need to be here by to take the test
What is 8:30 a.m.?
The minimum number of paragraphs you must have in your essay
What is 4?
Specific examples used as evidence in our body paragraphs should come from either of these two categories
What is examples we've Seen/Experienced? (Movies, TV, books, internet/family, friends, school, band, sports, etc.)
Correct the sentence below:
"When people have heart attacks you expereince pain in the left arm."
What is:
1. Add a comma between "attacks" and "you"?
2. Change "you" to "they"?
3. Switch the "e" and the "i" in the word "expereince" to "experience"?
"It was the night of the living dead!"
What is an oxymoron?