Fiction
Beginning, Middle, and End
What is narrative (story) structure?
Loosely equivalent to paragraphs but for poetry.
What are stanzas?
Texts that are meant to share information with readers.
What is informational texts?
Writers have up to 2,300 characters to write a response.
What is an Extended Constructed Response?
Texts that are meant to argue for one side over another.
What is an argument text?
A characters thoughts, feelings, and interactions.
What is characterization?
What a poet wants to reader to understand is important about life...sometimes referred to as a "lesson."
What is a theme?
The statement that tells your reader what you are writing about.
What is a thesis?
Writers have 475 characters to write a response.
What is Short Constructed Response?
The statement that tells your reader what side you are on.
What is a claim?
A term used to describe what the writer has created when the reader can "see", "hear", "smell" and "feel" what is happening in a text (any genre).
What is imagery?
These devices are often used in poetry to create imagery. Example: Similes
What is figurative language?
A text structure where the events or the steps appear in order.
What is chronological or sequential?
A five-point rubric is used to score this type of response.
What is an ECR?
Using experts, emotion, and statistics to support their evidence.
What are the appeals?
There is a point in a story when the author can no longer add character development or additional conflict or tension.
What is the climax?
Lines that appear more than once help create rhythm in a poem, which is far more important to the success of a poem than rhyme.
What is repetition?
Headings, subheadings, and captions help to spotlight important details in informational texts.
What are text features?
These important details when writing an essay directly support the thesis.
What is text-based evidence?
What is text evidence?
What is evidence?
This is a comment opposite to what is being stated.
What is a counter argument?
The point in the story when the conflict is resolved.
What is resolution?
Sometimes poets give human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
These marks let the reader know that someone is speaking or their words are being represented.
What are quotation marks?
An important word tool provided online during the test that will help with multiple choice and constructed response items.
What is a dictionary?
This response disproves another comment made by an individual and reiterates why their response is correct.
What is a rebuttle?