Editing and Revising
What change, if any, should be made in sentence 10?
For example, U.S. scientists use the metric system exclusively; because it provides a standard that is understood worldwide.
F) Change use to using
G) Delete the semicolon
H) Insert a comma after standard
J) No change is needed.
What is G?
The leaves were dancing in the wind is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place
What is setting?
What is diction?
What type of writing does the following prompt refer to?
Read the following information.
In today’s world, many people are choosing to communicate through texting rather than conversing with others in person or by phone. Texting is quick and convenient, but it may lack the emotional elements of more personal communication styles.
Can text messages be misinterpreted or misunderstood because they are typed? Carefully consider this question.
Write an essay stating your position on whether texting is an effective method of communication.
Be sure to —
• state your position clearly
• use appropriate organization
• provide specific support for your argument
• choose your words carefully
• edit your writing for grammar, mechanics, and spelling
What is ECR or Extended Constructed Response or Essay?
The word mixing is not the most effective word to use in sentence 6. Which word best replaces mixing in the sentence?
(6) The mixing of moisture, bacteria, and air makes food deteriorate quickly.
A) merger
B) mingling
C) connection
D) combination
What is combination?
“The streets were white in the moonlight. The rain had stopped and it was cold. Everything looked dead as if the life had gone out of it.”
What is imagery?
The "paragraphs" in a poem
What are stanzas?
Expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience
What is tone?
The following is an example of:
Sentence 16 needs to be revised. In the box provided, rewrite this sentence in a clear and effective way.
What is editing and revising SCR?
What change is needed in sentence 1?
Before Sally Ride joined NASA in the 1970s, the idea of a woman becoming an astronaut seemed incomprehensable.
F) Insert a comma after NASA
G) Change idea to ideas
H) Change becoming to to become
J) Change incomprehensable to incomprehensible
What is J?
The following is an example of:
"At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the 16th century."
What is hyperbole?
ANNA MARIA: Your interest! To win a place in a society where we don’t belong.
LEOPOLD: What’s this? You are the one who was always so impressed by the glitter of the court.
ANNA MARIA: Of course I was. But I was content to dream of dressing like an Empress someday. You are using our child to prove something—something to a group of people whom you despise.
LEOPOLD: I haven’t used him. I gave Wolfgang choices all along the way.
What is dialogue?
An argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument
What is counterargument?
The following is an example of:
Read the question carefully. Then enter your answer in the box provided.
How does the rising action in paragraphs 3 and 4 develop a theme in the excerpt? Support your answer with evidence from the excerpt.
What is SCR?
(8) Early attempts to provide provisions to troops left them weakened. (9) Troops were also left malnourished and susceptible to disease, which could be fatal.
What is the most effective way to combine sentences 8 and 9?
a) Early attempts to provide provisions to troops left them weakened, malnourished, and susceptible to disease, which could be fatal.
b) Early attempts to provide provisions to the troops left them weakened, and were also malnourished.
What is A
"As cool as a cucumber" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is a simile
What is the highest score you can get on your ECR if you do not use textual evidence?
What is zero
Occurs when a character faces an obstacle to their central want or need and is used as a tool in literature to move the story forward
What is conflict?
The author uses irony in paragraph 8 most likely to show that...
Now Sigismondo turned, and what did he see? The stretch of road that he had just cleared was being covered again with snow, by the helter-skelter shoveling of a character panting there on the sidewalk.
A) Sigismondo's efforts are being erased by the efforts of a fellow worker.
B) Sigismondo's crew is unable to keep up with the rapidly accumulating snow.
C) the snow continues to pile up as the worker's compete to win favor of their boss.
D) the speed at which the workers have to shovel is causing them undue stress.
What is A?
(9) Wearing boots, hats, and sunglasses, and smothered in sunscreen, we walked over to the parks visitor center.
What change is needed in sentence 9?
a) Change Wearing to Wear
b) Change smothered to smuthered
c) Delete the comma after sunscreen
d) change parks to park's
The following lines are an example of:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
What is a metaphor?
The following is an example of...
Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley’s, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning.
What is characterization?
The sequence of events in which each event affects the next one
What is plot?
Which part of the test counts for the most points?
What is the ECR?