About the Test
The ELA regents contains these three parts.
What are multiple choice, argumentative essay, and text analysis?
This is the time and place in which a work of literature takes place.
What is setting?
Authors sometimes like to give human qualities to non-human things using this literary element.
What is personification?
The United States has a vast amount of newly discovered clean geothermal (natural heat from the Earth’s crust) energy. Tapping into this energy source could provide at least 10 times the energy that can be obtained from the nation’s known coal reserves.
This word means "a large amount".
What is vast?
What are the claim and counter claim?
These three types of reading passages are included in the multiple choice.
What are fiction, poetry, and non-fiction?
1st person: I, we
2nd person: You
3rd person: He, she, they
What is point of view?
This is the feeling that a piece of literature gives a reader.
What is mood?
"She opened her eyes just in time to see a slight, plainly dressed woman collapse backward in a heap of brown muslin as Elizabeth’s chocolates exploded from the box and rolled off in a dozen directions."
This phrase creates a sense of exaggeration.
What is "exploded from the box"?
Want to pass the exam? Make sure you use at least this many sources for the argumentative essay.
What is three?
You will be seated for the ELA regents at this date and time.
What is June 9th (Tuesday) at 9:15 am?
Who knows how to S.T.E.A.L.? This is the process by which the writer reveals the descriptions of a character, either directly or indirectly.
What is characterization?
What is tone?
No matter where you go, the Internet is following you. Almost every portable device is being made with an Internet connection. Most new TVs and many other appliances come with Internet connections as well. The Internet is truly ubiquitous.
This word means something can be found everywhere.
What is ubiquitous?
Address these two things in your Text Analysis, and you're golden!
What are central idea/theme and a writing strategy?
This is the purpose of the Text Analysis response (part 3).
What is to analyze the development of the central idea using a writing strategy?
What is irony?
This story is so good I can almost see it (or feel it, or taste it, or hear it, or...)
What is imagery?
Perhaps the most important factor in reducing the number of traumatic brain injuries, however, lies not with the players, the coaches, or the administrators, but with the media and fans. Sports media producers have become accustomed to showcasing the most aggressive tackles and the most intense plays. NFL broadcasts often replay especially violent collisions, while the commentators marvel at the physical prowess of the players involved.
This word means to be used to something.
What is accustomed?
Don't just acknowledge the opposing claim! You must include a--
What is a rebuttal?
The maximum number of raw points on the exam is--
What is 56?
This is a reference to a major literary work, historical example, etc.
Wait a minute-- I remember this! This literary device is when the plot is interrupted to tell readers something that happened at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
Elizabeth knew well that this day had been nearly one hundred years in the making and that it had not come without a cost. The passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote was the culmination of years of struggle.
This word means "a result".
What is culmination?
What are three reasons and evidence from all four texts?