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Informational Text
Dramatic Text
Poetry
Narrative Text
Test-Taking Strategies
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These are additions to the words or changes to the appearance of words that help give more meaning to the text.
What are text features?
100
When a dramatic text is performed live on stage it is called this.
What is a play?
100
"I thought the earth remembered me. . ." is an example of
What is personification?
100
The people in the story
Who are the characters
100
This word means spending the right amount of time on each question, not too much...not too little.
What is pacing?
200
Information that is given as numbers or percentages
What statistics?
200
The words that characters speak aloud
What is dialogue?
200
This is the feeling or emotion the poet is trying to express.
What is tone?
200
This element of a narrative tells where and when the action takes place
What is the setting?
200
After answering the BCR question, you should always include this in your written answer.
What is text evidence?
300
A word or phrase that describes what a section of the text is about
What is a heading
300
These are written in parentheses and often in italics
What are stage directions?
300
Describing a thing by comparing it to something else as in the following phrase: "He gave me his sunburst smile."
What is metaphor?
300
The most intense point in the story, this is where the main character must make a decision
What is the climax?
300
These strategies should be used on every question, all the time, no matter what
What is read the entire text and all answer choices?
400
The people for whom the author writes.
What is the audience?
400
Drama is a type of this genre.
What is narrative?
400
The following sentence has several example of "Suzy's golashes make splishes and sploshes and slooshes and sloshes"
What is onomatopoeia?
400
This map illustrates the elements of the plot
What is (drawing)
400
This strategy should be used whenever the question asks about a specific section of the text
What is go back and re-read?
500
This is the point the author is trying to make.
What is the argument?
500
These are two things you can learn from the stage directions
What are: time, place, character's emotions, how characters move, how characters speak, what props are on stage
500
This is the use of language to create mental pictures that engage the 5 senses
What is imagery?
500
When Rashad said, "Me and Kevon walked to the corner store on the way to school," he was using this point of view.
What is first person point of view?
500
Cross out answers that don't make sense first, then pick the best of what's left.
What is the process of elimination?