RA Terms
The person or group who creates a text
What is the speaker?
What sort of characterization is more impressive to readers?
Indirect characterization
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
You have this long to complete your work on Tuesday
What is ninety minutes?
Your constructed responses should contain these three things
What are a claim, data, and link?
The three things that are the basis to understanding any text
What are the speaker, subject, and audience?
What are the five points of a plot arc you should use to structure your essay?
These are among three of the first things one should look for when one begins to analyze a poem
You should be present before this time on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday?
7:55
What Mr. Tanner means when he says "data"
What is evidence that supports your claim?
the goal the speaker wants to achieve
What is purpose?
This helps to show characters think and feel as well as to progress the plot
What is dialogue?
The speaker's attitude toward their subject
The vast majority of you will be testing in this room
What is the AUX GYM?
What it means to have a "link"
What is to connect two parts of your writing, specifically to connect your claim and data?
An issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak
What is the exigency?
About how many paragraphs does a narrative essay need to be?
As long as it needs to be to cover each part of the writer's checklist.
The minimum number of times one should read a poem before attempting to analyze
You will be writing this many essays each day
What is one?
Constructed responses are worth this amount compared to a multiple-choice question
What is twice as much?
The three Greek terms describing methods of persuasion
What are ethos, pathos, and logos
Your instructor has continually reminded you to use these two things as often as possible in your narrative writing
What are imagery and dialogue?
If struggling to analyze a poem, the reader should do this.
Paraphrase each stanza.
You have this long to complete your work on Wednesday and Thursday
You will have this many constructed responses questions over the three-day testing period
What is six? *note-- this does not include field items*