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Fiction
Informational Text
Short Answers
Writing
Rev/Edit
100
What is "Characterization"?
What a character feels, thinks, speaks, looks like, and acts.
100
What is the genre of text that explains information to the audience?
Expository
100
What is the ACE strategy?
Answer Question, Cite Evidence, Explain
100
What is a thesis statement?
The main topic of your essay.
100
What are two independent clauses combined with a semicolon or a comma and fanboy?
compound sentence
200
What is the point of view where the narrator shows only one character's feelings and thoughts?
Third person limited.
200
What is a strategy you can use to read an informational text?
Chunking and charting
200
What is a crossover question?
You need evidence from two texts in this answer.
200
What are the examples you can use to strengthen your thesis?
Supporting details
200
What is a dependent clause and an independent clause combined with a comma?
Complex sentence
300
What is a poem that tells a story?
Narrative poem.
300
What is the reason the author has written the text?
Author's purpose
300
What is score 1.
Writing an answer with an idea but no text evidence.
300
What is a way you can organize your essay?
Organizational pattern.
300
What do you call editing skills?
checking for punctuation, spelling, and grammar
400
What do you call lines in a drama that tell the actors what to do?
Stage directions
400
What is another word for the thesis statement?
Main idea
400
What is the punctuation you need for quotes?
Quotation marks
400
What are the components of an essay?
wow words, thesis, supporting details, sentence variety, transitions, orgainzation
400
What is a testing strategy?
Read your questions first.
500
What do you call similes, metaphors, personification?
Figurative language
500
What are the 5 organizational patterns of expository text?
Cause and effect, compare contrast, problem solution, description, process.
500
How many points are the two short answer worth?
18 points
500
How many points is the essay worth?
24 points
500
What are words that help ideas move along in an essay?
Transition words