Easy Level/Basic
What strategy is used for reading SCRS?
R.A.C.E. (Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain) or A.C.E.
What is this an example of “the night is as cold as a sharp sword”?
Simile using like or as
What is the emotional feeling that a work of literature produces in the reader?
Mood
What does THE ACE stand for?
A = Answer the question
C = Cite evidence from the text
E = Explain how the evidence supports your answer
What is an example of “the west wind dances down the road”?
Personification - giving human qualities to something non-human
What is this an example of “THE snow on the hill was powdered sugar.”
metaphor
What is descriptive language that appeals to the reader’s 5 senses?
Imagery - sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch to help readers visualize and experience the text.
What is a complex sentence made up of?
1 independent +1 or more dependent clauses
Compound sentences can be joined using either
,FANBOYS or SEMICOLON ;
What's the most important sentence in your essay?
Thesis
In drama (a play) what do you call the conversation between 2 or more characters?
dialogue
Although before, since, after, and while are all examples of
Subordinating conjunctions - introduce dependent clauses in complex sentences
How many ECRS do you need to know how to write?
3 = Informative, argumentative, correspondence
In drama (a play), what do you call the text that describes the scenery and how characters speaks, usually found in brackets)?
Stage directions
What do you call a sentence that is missing a subject , verb or both?
Fragment