Skills
Literary Terms
Multiple Choice
Short Response
Extended Response
100

BME stands for?

What is "Beginning, Middle, End"?

100
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100

What it is it called when you cross out the incorrect answers on a multiple choice question?

What is "Slash the Trash"?

100

How many points is a short response question worth?

What is 2 points?

100

How many points is an extended response question worth?

What is 4 points?

200

What is it called when you take notes while you read the passage?

What is "Stop and Jot"?

200

A comparison not using "like" or "as"?

What is a metaphor?

200

What you should physically be doing while answering multiple choice questions?

What is looking back in the text?

200

How many sentences should your short response be?

What is 3-5 sentences?

200

How many paragraphs should your extended response be?

What is 4 paragraphs?

300

The main idea of a text is?

What is what the text is mainly or mostly about?

300

The "where" and "when" for the story-the time and place.

What is setting?

300

If the multiple choice question mentions a specific paragraph(s) or specific sentence(s), what should you do?

What is go back to that paragraph(s) or sentence(s)?

300

The number of pieces of evidence that you are expected to supply.

What is 2

300

What are the parts of your extended response/essay?

What is an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion?

400

Finish this phrase: "Somebody wanted ..."

What is "Somebody wanted but so then"?

400

What is it called when a writer gives a hint of what's to come?

What is foreshadowing?

400

How many multiple choice questions will there be on your test?

What is 35?

400

What do you need to get a all two points on your short response question?

What is a claim and two pieces of evidence?

400

Where should your claim/thesis go?

What is at the end of your introduction paragraph?

500

The theme of a text is?

What is the message, lesson, or moral that author wants you to learn?

500

What is it called when the author goes back in the story to an earlier time?

What is flashback?

500

Should you ever skip a question?

What is no?

500

What do you need when you quote directly from the text?

What is quotation marks?

500

How many pieces of evidence should you have in your extended response/essay?

What is at least 4?