Structure
Important Details
Also important
Also important
Lit Devices
100

The first sentence of a CR

What is a claim sentence?

100

How many quotes you should include in CR (unless the instructions say otherwise)

What is 2?

100

This should be in quotation marks or italics every single time it shows up in your paragraph.

What is the title?

100

The last sentence of a CR.

What is a conclusion sentence? (or what is a closing sentence?)
100

This is a safe bet if you're unsure which lit device to discuss, because it exists in every piece of writing. 

What is diction? (or, what is word choice?)

200

This comes immediately after a quote -- after the quotation marks and before the period.

What is a citation?
200

What you must do to the title and author's name every time either one appears in your submission.

What is capitalize?

200

For the written responses on the EOC, half of your points are for mechanics: grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and paragraph structure. The other half of your points are for this.

What is your answer?

200

Never, ever end your paragraph with one of these.

What is a quote?

200
This is developed by the author's or narrator's attitude on the topic.

What is tone?

300

The part of the evidence sentence that is in your own words

What is a lead-in?

300

Your reasoning should be at least this much longer than your quote.

What is twice as long?

300

For a poem, your citation should be this. 

What is a line number?

300

On exam day, your teacher cannot do this at all in any way. 

What is answering a question?

300

If a question asks how the author uses literary devices to develop a theme, along with stating the literary devices you choose, you must provide this information as part of your answer.

What is the theme?

400

Contains the author, title, language from the prompt, and your answer

What is a claim sentence?

400

You must provide a separate one for every single quote you use -- you can't use the same one for multiple quotes.

What is reasoning?

400

You should never use these in a CR (or in any academic writing) unless they are inside a direct quote from the text.

What are personal pronouns?

400

Trim your quote so that it flows naturally with your lead-in, because your evidence sentence needs to be this.

What is grammatically correct?

400

When you write about this lit device, you want to focus on how it triggers one or more of your senses.

What is imagery?

500

The majority of the paragraph

What is reasoning? (or, what is elaboration?)

500
Any time you are meant to type out your answer on the EOC, you should structure it like this, even if the instructions don't tell you to.

What is a CR? (or what is a Constructed Response? or what is a claim/evidence/reasoning paragraph?)

500

To figure out a text's theme, start by noticing which _____ are in the text, then determine what the message about each of them is.

What are motifs? (or, what are thematic topics?)

500

The prompt: How does the author use literary devices to develop characterization? 

What this claim sentence is missing: In "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison, the author uses literary devices to develop characterization.

What is your answer?

500

When you write about this lit device, it is crucial to analyze specific, individual words from the quote.

What is diction?