What is as a reading strategy or test-taking strategy?
100
This is how a reader feels after he or she reads.
What is mood?
100
We took the plane all the way their/they're/there.
What is there?
100
An example of this literary device can be found in the tongue twister...Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
100
To make her famous muffins, Paulette bought vanilla baker's chocolate sugar and eggs. This is where the commas are missing.
(Hint: Items in a series.)
What is add a comma after vanilla, chocolate, and sugar?
200
The first step of PEEPS where I read the passage and underline any key words; this is probably the longest of all the steps.
What is Preview?
200
Another word for a narrative.
What is a story?
200
The following is this type of sentence:
It's really interesting to know that people who are afraid of the dark are called nychtophobiacs, that is a strange word!
(run-on or fragment)
What is a run-on sentence?
200
The author's attitude toward the subject he or she is writing about.
What is tone?
200
A central message or lesson about life that the author wants the reader to know.
What is theme?
300
This is what I eliminate. I should get my answer choices down to only two possible answers.
What is "the duh!"?
300
The freshman girls went to there/their/they're homecoming dance.
What is their?
300
You spell it weird or wierd.
What is weird?
300
A comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as".
Example: Her eyes sparkled like diamonds.
What is a simile?
300
Another word for synthesize.
C_ _ _ _ _ E
What is combine?
400
This is the step where I highlight my text evidence in the reading passage and mark my questions with paragraph numbers.
What is Prove it?
400
These are all types of literal/interpretive/evaluative/universal questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why?
What is literal?
400
This is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms.
(Ex: Have you ever told someone that they are pretty ugly?)
What is an oxymoron?
400
A phrase not meant to be taken literally.
(Example: Have you ever wished someone good luck and told them to "Break a leg"?)
What is an idiom?
400
Complete the analogy:
native : alien :: nearby : _________________
a. odd
b. remote
c. martian
d. unfriendly
What is remote?
500
This is the last step in PEEPS
What is Score?
500
What is another word for conclude, infer, or inference?
What is guess?
500
What is occurrence?
A word which comes from the Greek and means phenomenon:
a. occurrence
b. puzzle
c. tales
500
A word comes with either a positive or negative _____________; it is the opposite of denotation.
What is connotation?
500
A pattern of stressed (X) and unstressed (/) syllables that occur in a line of poetry