10 tips trivia
What you should do if you do not understand a passage
Re-read it!
The very first sentence in a TDA or ToSEEC essay is…
The topic sentence, it tells the reader what the paragraph will be about.
Dialogue
Characters talking
What is a summary?
Retelling the most important parts of a story in your own words
What is imagery?
When the author uses details to describe things using our 5 senses
What you should do for vocabulary questions
Replace the word in the sentence with one that would make sense in your head, then see if that answer is one of the choices
Evidence is…
Words straight from the book that support your topic statement
What is plot?
The events of a story told in order (what happens)
What is expository text?
Telling facts
What is symbolism? Bonus 200 if you give an example from a book we’ve read
What 2 things you should do before reading the passage
Read the questions and underline words that help you understand what the question is asking
A concluding statement always…
Wraps up your thinking and restates the general idea of the topic sentence
What a text is mostly about
what is narrative text?
telling a story
What is point of view? Bonus 100 for each type
Who is telling the story (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person)
When reading you should read in…
Chunks, and write on the side what each chunk is about
The purpose of a hook is…
To get your reader interested in what you are going to say
What is an inference?
A guess based on what you already know and what the text says
When words mean more than their literal meaning
What is setting?
Where and when the story takes place
Ms B wants you to remember that…
You are more than this test!
Elaboration is…
Explaining why you picked that evidence, and how it connects to your topic statement. “This shows that…”
What is theme?
The moral of a story or author’s message
What is a flashback?
When the story goes back in time. The “backstory”
What is a genre (bonus 100 for an example)
The type of story