This is a strategy for crossing out answers that you know are wrong.
What is process of elimination?
100
The author of Push
Who is Sapphire?
100
The literary element used to describe how characters speak, act, how others speak to that character, and how others act toward him or her.
What is characterization?
100
The number of parts on the New York State English Regents
What is four?
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 listening section
What is listening and writing the 5Ws (who, what, when, where, why) and How? And using the second time to fill in the blanks?
200
The author of Macbeth
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
A metaphor for a sexually excited man in "Little Red Riding Hood"
What is the wolf?
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?
300
Also a literary element, this refers to the perspective from which the story is told. For example, when a story begins with "I" this is called first person.
What is point of view?
300
The author of "Little Red Riding Hood"
Who is the Brothers Grimm?
300
This element describes times of slavery, located along the Mississippi River in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
What is setting?
300
The Critical Lens is at this location on the test.
What is the last part, Part 4, or the last essay you write?
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
The strategy you can use when comparing two passages; you can use this strategy to make sure that you get the information from both passages you are meant to compare.
What is highlighting/underlining one and circling the other?
400
The author of Sula
Who is Toni Morrison?
400
In Edgar Allen Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart", this literary element is used to describe the beating heart of the man buried under the floor, which represents the narrator's guilt.
What is symbolism? The beating heart symbolizes the narrator's guilt.
400
In the third part, you will write
What are the controlling idea paragraph and literary elements paragraph?
400
On Part 3, when you are reading the controlling idea passages, what can you USE if you are stuck for ideas on the paragraphs?
What are the multiple choice questions?
500
The question you should write down for yourself before you begin reading the controlling idea passages; this question will help you write your controlling idea
Why is ____________ important?
500
The author of The Brief Wondrous Life Oscar Wao
Who is Junot Diaz?
500
This literary element is used to heavily in Langston Hughes pome "A Dream Deferred" , in such passages that evoke a sensory experience, like a dream that dries up
"like a raisin in the sun
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?"
What is imagery or mental images?
500
This part of the test is worth 55%
What are the writing parts?
500
The number of novels/plays you must use on the Critical Lens task AND the number of literary elements you must use for EACH work