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Literary Terms
Benchmarks
Reading Strategies
FCAT Vocab
Test-taking Strategies
100
Repeated consonant sounds occuring at the beginning of words or within words.
What is alliteration?
100
This benchmark will ask you to draw similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
100
Looking at the hints in a sentence or paragraph to define unknown words or phrases.
What is context clues?
100
A personal judgment or prejudice.
What is bias?
100
This is what you should do the night before FCAT.
What is get a good night's sleep?
200
A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, object, or an idea.
What is personification?
200
This benchmark will ask you to determine the essential message of the passage.
What is theme?
200
This is combining facts from the text and your background knowledge.
What is an inference?
200
The main problem that makes up any story.
What is central conflict?
200
This will cause you to ALWAYS, 100% of the time, get the question wrong.
What is leaving a question blank?
300
The feeling the author gives when reading the passage aloud.
What is tone?
300
This benchmark will ask you to understand the reasons WHY something happens and the RESULTS.
What is cause and effect?
300
The writer's word choice.
What is diction?
300
The viewpoint that an author brings to a piece of writing.
What is author's perspective/point of view?
300
If a passage is so boring that you zone out while reading it, you should do this.
What is reread the passage?
400
A reference to a widely known person, place or piece of literature.
What is allusion?
400
This benchmark will ask you to determine the reason why an author wrote a passage.
What is author's purpose?
400
The 5 types of organization for reading passages.
What is chronological, problem/solution, cause/effect, description and sequential?
400
The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
What is mood?
400
This is a good strategy for minimizing your answer options.
What is eliminating two answers or selecting the best two answers?
500
Referring to a statement or situation that is the opposite of what you would expect.
What is irony?
500
This benchmark will require you to evaluate the validity and reliability of information.
What are primary and secondary sources?
500
The decision you come to when you put what you know in your head and what you’ve read in the story together.
What is drawing a conclusion?
500
A type of writting that is used to explain, describe, give information or inform and can usually be found in magazines, journals or textbooks.
What is expository?
500
This strategy is allowed on the test and encouraged to help you determine the correct answers.
What is marking the text?