Test-Taking Strategies
The easy questions.
What are the first questions you should answer on any assessment?
A comparison of two things, usually using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
Voice of "My hand was cut by the sharp edge."
What is a passive voice?
This sentence goes at the end of your introduction.
What is a thesis?
The school Mr. G went to for college.
What is Texas A&M University?
An answer that appears right but is not the BEST answer.
What is a distractor/decoy?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
A word from a verb and used as an adjective.
What is a participle?
This part of your essay goes against your thesis.
What is a counterargument or counterclaim?
Mr. G's pets.
What are two dogs?
The technique you use if you are unaware of the solution until using context clues.
What is inferencing?
A word that is meant to represent a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
A word that indicates position in time or space.
What is a preposition?
The minimum number of reasons we have learned that you need to support your thesis.
What is at least two?
"So it does not catch you off guard."
What Mr. G says about the bell in the last two minutes of class?
The practice you use when writing all useful information you might forget on the margins and sides of your scratch paper.
What is a brain dump?
A comparison of two unrelated things not using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
A sentence with two dependent clauses and one independent.
What is a complex sentence?
What you should use to support your reasons.
What is text evidence?
14 contusions to the frontal lobe.
What is Mr. G's brain injury?
The minimum number of times you should use to review your work.
What is two?
An expression that doesn't mean what the words say, like "It's raining cats and dogs".
What is an idiom?
A sentence with two independent clauses and one dependent clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
How you should open your essay.
What is a "hook"?
McNeil Mavericks.
What is Mr. G's high school mascot? (at graduation)