Definitions
The message that the text is trying to convey
Main Idea, Central Idea, Theme
life
bio
Getting 9 hours of this is a good way to improve brain function and raise energy levels.
Sleep
This type of figurative language compares two things and uses the word(s) "like" or "as"
Simile
What you are not allowed to do after we've started the testing session.
Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.
Context Clues
people
dem, pop
Doing this activity during the breaks is a great way to get your blood flowing, helping your body feel more alert and awake.
Standing up and/or stretching
This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to non-human things.
Personification
What you should turn off and turn in to your teacher before the test starts tomorrow. (Hint: If you don't and it makes a noise during the test, we will all have to come back to retake the EoG!)
Phones
What you can conclude from taking in certain information.
Inference
love
phil, amor
When you're stuck on a question and you've already eliminated one or more answers, doing this should be your next strategy.
Skipping the questions and returning to it later.
This type of figurative language is a word sound.
Onomatopoeia
What you are allowed to do after you have finished the test, but before everyone has finished.
Read a novel or rest.
A phrase commonly used in everyday language that doesn't make sense in another language.
Idiom
new
neo, proto, prime, prim
This strategy will help keep your teacher from coming after you when he gets the test scores back. If you don't do this on a multiple choice test, you just don't even care.
Answering all of the questions.
The repetition of consonant sounds in a sentence
Alliteration
3 hours (180 minutes)
This is a device that uses one part of something to symbolize the whole thing.
Synechdoche
true
veri, ver
A strategy to determine how to use the time you have left.
Determining how much time you have left per question. (#Questions remaining/Number of minutes remaining)
Means the exact opposite of what it says for comedic or dramatic effect.
Irony
The number of questions on the Reading EOG