Test Taking Strategies
Reading each answer choice and getting rid of the ones that do not pertain to the passage or topic.
What is the process of elimination?
When a person/speaker is credible.
What is Ethos?
The universal message of a story. This is not one word but a sentence.
What is a theme?
When an object represents more than what it is. Examples:
The America Flag can represent freedom.
A tree can represent life.
What is symbolism?
Ivy was hungry, she went to Taco Bell.
This is an example of a_______ __________.
What is a comma splice?
Do this before you start reading a passage to give you a purpose for reading and to give you an idea of what you will be reading.
What is read the questions first?
What you call the people who listen to a speech. Who the speech is written for.
What is audience?
The words the writer uses to convey the way he feels about the subject.
What is tone?
"He is as sly as a fox" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
I took out my water bottle, lined pad, and pen for a brief writing break.
The term for balancing a sentence that lists two or more things.
What is parallel structure?
Using clues from the text to help determine the meaning of unknown words
What is Vocabulary in Context
This type of rhetoric appeals to one's emotions.
What is pathos?
A work of persuasion. You use it to convince others to agree with your claim or viewpoint when they have doubts or disagree.
What is argument?
The representation of any thing, being, or abstraction as a person or with person-like qualities.
Hint: Giving humanlike qualities to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
Use this type of punctuation to join two complete thoughts.
What is a semicolon?
This is what you should do before choosing an answer on multiple choice questions.
What is read every answer choice?
Why a writer writes something.
Hint: persuade, inform, entertain
What is the author's purpose?
How the reader feels when he or she reads specific words the writer uses.
What is mood?
She sells seashells by the seashore.
The repetition of the same letter in multiple words to create sound or rhythm.
What is alliteration?
The acronym for coordinating conjunctions.
Hint: you must use a comma before this conjunction if what comes after it is a sentence.
What are FANBOYS?
Don't focus on what you don't know but what ____
_____ ______.
what is "you do know"?
Using the same word or phrases over and over to stress a point.
What is repetition?
When the author explicitly tells the reader what a character is like.
and
When the author shows what a character is, and the reader must infer the traits.
What are direct and indirect characterization?
Comparing two unlike things by stating one thing is something else. Does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The type of punctuation needed in this sentence:
A Virginia Trail Guide writer once described it like this “it sits like a solitary
fang rising from the ground."
What is a colon?