Language
The acronym tool for poetry, and what each letter stands for
What are FISTS, figurative language, imagery, sound devices, tone, and structure?
The marinated chicken did pirouettes on her tongue. The olive oil and lemon juice were experienced dance partners.
The personification in the sentences above reveals this perspective of the woman.
What is "She likes the chicken"?
What evidence must be to effectively support a claim
What is relevant?
You can describe the central idea of a text by doing this.
What is summarizing the text in one sentence?
The definition of theme
What is the message or life lesson a text teaches you?
Sometimes, bright students pretend to not know the answers so they get called on less frequently.
This word is a synonym for bright in the sentence above.
What is smart?
What is intelligent?
This is created when the audience has more knowledge about a topic or situation than a character.
What is dramatic irony?
Authors construct weak arguments when they have this to support their claims.
What is insufficient evidence?
When identifying the central idea of a text, look in these two places first.
What are the beginning and end of the text?
What a theme must be instead of a single word.
What is a complete sentence?
Transport, motorways and
tramlines
Starting and then stopping
Taking off and landing
The emptiest of feelings
Disappointed people, clinging
onto bottles
When it comes it's so, so,
disappointing
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
These three sound devices appear in the stanza above.
What are repetition, rhyme, and alliteration?
A reason that two partners for a project might have different perspectives on how to complete it
What is [insert anything that works, including from the list below]?
One student has an A in the class, while the other has an F / One student prefers to procrastinate while the other prefers to plan ahead / The students want to pick different topics for their project
A piece of evidence that supports the claim that sleep is important for brain function.
What is [insert any related fact]?
A claim that is supported by the evidence below
When students don't understand how course content applies to real life, they are less likely to engage with lessons.
What is "It is important for schools to make lessons feel relevant to students"?
The group of people the theme of a story applies to
Who is everyone?
The heat slapped my skin as I trudged out the door and down the sidewalk.
This sentence, but with two words changed so that the sentence has the opposite tone.
What is "The heat brushed my skin as I pranced out the door and down the sidewalk"?
or any other version of the sentence with "slapped' and "trudged" replaced by words with positive connotations
Clues as to a person's perspective on a topic, if not told explicitly
What are the words they choose?
To analyze a passage, you must combine textual evidence with your own background knowledge to draw these.
What are inferences?
The acronym tool for informational texts, AND what each letter stands for, AND the options to pick from for the first and last letters of the acronym
What are PACT, purpose (entertain, inform, persuade), audience, central idea, and text structure (chronological, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solution)?
The theme of Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, in which Alex wishes that her parents had never met, almost causing her erasure from existence.
What is "be careful what you wish for"?
The root word of predeterminism
What is determine?
Two perspectives which are crafted with the same words, but may not always align
What are the author's perspective and the speaker's perspective?
The boys had seemingly crafted the perfect plan: Jaden would tell his parents he was sleeping at Jadon's house, Jadon would tell his parents he was sleeping at Jayden's house, and Jayden would tell his parents he was sleeping at Jaden's house. This way, no one would suspect that they were at a concert in the next town over. Jadon would take the extra precaution of leaving his phone at Jayden's house and keeping his location services turned on.
What you know is true about Jadon's parents, despite not being told explicitly
What is "Jadon's parents track his location"?
To easily determine an author's central idea, first determine these two things.
What are purpose and audience?
What is "love is fickle"?