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/
Replacing a weak verb with a stronger verb when revising a piece of writing.
What is Substitute/Replace?
Writers have up to 2,300 characters to write a response.
What is an Extended Constructed Response?
The main character in a story, poem, or drama who is wanting to accomplish a goal.
Who is the protagonist?
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?
A writer forgot an important detail in his essay and includes this detail in his next draft.
What is revising by adding?
Writers have 475 characters to write a response.
What is Short Constructed Response?
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?
Sometimes writers need to remove words or phrases from a draft.
What is revising by deleting?
A five-point rubric is used to score this type of response.
What is an ECR?
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?
Language that makes it hard for readers to visualize ideas a writer includes.
What is vague?
These important details when writing an essay directly support the thesis.
What is text-based evidence?
What is text evidence?
What is evidence?
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?
What is Revising (or Writing) Constructed Response?
An important word tool provided online during the test that will help with multiple choice and constructed response items.
What is a dictionary?