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Literary Terms
Reading Strategies
Benchmarks
The Extras
Test-taking Strategies
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A figure of speech which compares two things with the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Pictures, Titles, Map, Subheadings, & Graphs.
What is the text features?
100
This benchmark will ask you to draw similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
100
This weekend you should....
What is get a lot of sleep, eat well and prepare for the testing?
100
This means eliminating the choices you know are wrong.
What is process of elimination?
200
Repeated consonant sounds occuring at the beginning of words or within words.
What is alliteration?
200
Looking at the hints in a sentence or paragraph to define unknown words or phrases.
What are context clues?
200
This benchmark will ask you to determine the essential message of the passage.
What is theme/main idea?
200
You have finished the test and you still have plenty of time left, what should you do?
What is go back and check your answers?
200
This tip will give you a good chance of getting a question right
What always having a reason or justification for the answer you chose?
300
A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, object, or an idea.
What is personification?
300
You can answer inference questions by combining these two things
What are facts from the text and your background knowledge?
300
Three examples of the author's purpose.
What is entertain, inform and persuade?
300
Words that are used to create a bigger meaning and are not true in fact.
What is a metaphor?
300
This will cause you to ALWAYS, 100% of the time, get the question wrong.
What is leaving a question blank?
400
Language that is not true in fact.
What is figurative language?
400
This question can be found by pointing to the exact answer in the text - "Justify it!"
Where is a direct or "right there" question?
400
Entertaining, Informing, Persuading
What are the three main author's purposes
400
The definition of setting
What is the time and place of a piece of narrative writing?
400
This will happen to you if you don't follow the testing rules.
What is test invalidation?
500
The feeling you would get if the author read the passage aloud.
What is tone?
500
These are three of the many pre-reading strategies you have learned in class.
What is read the title, preview pictures, preview graphs, read subtitles, footnotes, key terms, organizers, activating prior knowledge, etc.?
500
This benchmark will ask you to understand the reasons WHY something happens and the RESULTS.
What is cause and effect?
500
The 5 types of organization for reading passages
What is chronological, cause and effect, compare & contrast, main idea & details, problem/solution?
500
The most important strategy to do while taking the FCAT.
Try your absolute BEST!!