Test Taking Strategies
A common strategy for reading tests, is to read these before reading the text.
the questions
Grade-level new or unfamiliar words.
vocabulary.
She argues for a proper burial for her brother.
Antigone.
comparing two things using "like" or "as"
simile
True or False: Shakespeare invented over 1000 words.
true :)
Highlighting, circling, underlining, or boxing the text.
annotations
Non-literal language.
figurative language
He went to jail while protesting for civil rights.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The artistic representation of human character or motives
characterization
True or False: Macbeth was a real person.
True :)
When you read the text around a vocabulary word to figure out the meaning.
context clues
The underlying message of the text.
theme
He killed his king to become the king himself.
Macbeth
A series of reasons and facts to establish one’s point of view, often using rhetorical appeals (logos, ethos, pathos)
argumentative essay
False: He hated slavery.
Fixing mistakes
error analysis
The most important or central thoughts unifying elements of a text.
central idea
Frederick Douglass went to his hometown in Rochester, NY, to deliver this speech.
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
A position or proposition maintained in an essay (synonyms: bottom line, the main idea, direct response to prompt).
Thesis statement.
logos, ethos, pathos
rhetorical appeals
The excerpt of text used to answer the question.
context
Stories about growing up, learning a lesson, a young person becoming a mature person.
coming of age experiences
She was 15 when she refused to get out of her bus seat for a white person.
Claudette Colvin
literal level, mood, tone, and author’s purpose.
layers of meaning
Introduction paragraphs in argumentative essays include these: an optional hook, claims, and a ____ statement.
thesis