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Test-Taking Strategies
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Test-Taking Strategies--pt. 2
100
The first thing you look at on every task of the Regents exam
What is the prompt or instructions ("The Situation"/purpose box)?
100
The author of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Who is Harper Lee?
100
When one thing/object/idea represents another thing/object/idea.
What is symbolism?
100
The number of tasks on the NYS English Regents
What is 4?
100
The number of times the listening passage will be read to you
What is two?
200
The primary note-taking strategy you should utilize during the FIRST reading of the listening section on the Regents.
What is just close listening to the first reading & recording the main idea?
200
The author of Black Boy.
Who is Richard Wright?
200
The main idea in a text (typically about the human condition and life) that connects it to other texts and literature.
What is theme?
200
The very first task you will do is the ___________ section
What is listening?
200
The strategy you use when you don't understand the meaning of a Critical Lens quote
What is breaking it down into smaller parts/putting it in your own words?
300
A reading ANALYSIS strategy we use often that is helpful to determine basic elements of a text to analyze.
What is SOAPSTone?
300
The author of The Hunger Games.
Who is Suzanne Collins?
300
Define PERSONIFICATION and provide an example.
What is applying or ascribing human attributes and characteristics to a nonhuman thing? Example:
300
The Critical Lens requires you to know and have the following information: 2 _________ and their _________, and write about 2 ___________.
What is 2 texts/books and their authors; 2 literary devices or techniques.
300
The strategy you can use when you do not understand the meaning of a poem they want you to read
What is paraphrasing/breaking it down line by line or section by section?
400
4 annotation marks we use reading any text.
What are highlighting/underlining, circling, starring, and using a question mark?
400
The author of Fahrenheit 451.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
400
Identify 2 of the literary elements in this passage from Fahrenheit 451: "When Beatty entered the firehouse, the men parted on either side like the Red Sea."
What are allusion, and simile. Allusion is a reference to another work; in this case, Ray Bradbury is referencing and comparing his entrance to (SIMILE) the Biblical story of Moses, leading the Jewish people to freedom from slavery in Egypt. Beatty is being viewed as the Moses of the firehouse.
400
Question 26 is unique (different from 27) because you MUST write about this.
What is the controlling idea / seen in both texts?
400
A strategy to answer multiple choice questions that should ONLY be used once you have read the entire passage in question.
What is the process of elimination?
500
What you should be considering/thinking about while reading the 2 text passages in SECTION 3.
What is the controlling idea (given to you in Question 26)?
500
The author of THE GIVER
Who is Lois Lowry?
500
A contrast between what is expected and what really happens; the opposite of what is meant.
What is irony?
500
Question 27 is unique (different than 26) because you must reference these 2 things.
What is one text and one literary device?
500
What SOAPSTone stands for?
What is speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, tone.