Strategies
This is the first thing you should do when starting the test.
What is read and decode the questions?
Define claim
What is the author's argument or position on a topic?
What type of figurative language is used in this excerpt from Romeo and Juliet:
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
What is a metaphor?
This is a character's perspective OR how the story is told
What is POV (point of view)?
This is how long you have to complete the FAST Reading Test
What is the whole day, if needed
This is a strategy you should use for EVERY question.
What is process of elimination?
A writers use of vivid and descriptive language to appeal to the reader's senses and more deeply evoke places, things, emotions, and more
What is imagery?
An over-exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description.
What is hyperbole?
This is how a text is organized.
What is text structure?
This is the date are you taking the FAST Reading test.
What is Wednesday, May 2nd
This is why you should read the questions before reading the passage.
What is to set a purpose for reading/ to know what you are looking for?
Name 3 different types of text structure
Compare & contrast, description, problem/solution, cause & effect, chronological/sequence
Repetition of the same consonant sound at the start of one or more words near one another.
What is alliteration?
This is the message, lesson, moral, or topic of a text.
What is Theme?
The score you need to pass the FAST Reading test.
What is 350?
This is what you will do when entering the testing room to ensure testing is secure, distractions are eliminated, and cheating does not occur.
What is put your phones and electronics in your backpack and your bag to the front of the room?
Define tone vs. mood
Tone- speaker/author's feelings
Mood- reader's emotions
What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence:
Minutes before the show, she told me to break a leg.
What is an idiom?
These are persuasive appeals, also known as rhetorical appeals.
What is ethos, pathos, and logos?
This will happen if you are caught cheating, but it will also happen if you discuss the test or post about the content of the test on social media.
What is your test will be invalidated?
What is 1 thing you can do to help yourself BEFORE YOU even test?
What is get a good night's rest and eat breakfast?
This is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
What is an allusion?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple sentences. It is similar to the name of using repetition of a word or phrase at the end of multiple sentences.
What is anaphora? (epiphora:the end)
One is the dictionary's definition and one is an emotional meaning/feeling.
What is Denotation- definition
and Connotation- emotional feeling?
This is what you will do on test day to make us all proud.
What is pass the test!!?