Skills
Literary Terms
Story/Poetry Elements
Short Response
Extended Response
100
The main problem of a story.

What is conflict?

100
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The main part of the story, what it is mostly about.

What is Central Idea?

100

The strategy you should use to structure/compose a short response.

What is RACE?

RESTATE
ANSWER
CITE
EXPLAIN

100

The purpose of an introduction.

What is to grab the reader's attention and explain what you will be writing about in your essay?

200
Author's purpose can be broken down into PIE, which stands for...
What is Persuade, Inform, or Entertain?
200
"The typical teenage boy's room is a disaster area" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
200

The person speaking and the place where the story takes place.

What is narrator and setting?

200
The expected length of your short response.
What is 6-8 sentences?
200

Your body paragraphs in your essay MUST include this many pieces of evidence from the texts.

What is at least 2 pieces of evidence per body paragraph?

300

The different types of point of views and their definitions. 

What is 

First Person: my, I, me — narrator, author’s story

Third Person: he, she, they — outside perspective

Third Person Limited: outside perspective on only one person

Third Person Omniscient: outside perspective on multiple people.

300

Giving inanimate objects human like qualities


What is a personification?

300

Poets use this methods to say certain phrases and words again and again to emphasize something important.

What is repetition?

300
The number of pieces of evidence that you are expected to supply.
What is 2?
300

The purpose of your conclusion.

What is to summarize your ideas?

400

A prediction or a guess about the story based on what you already know. 

What is an inference?

400

"Hard work and patience pay off in the end" is an example of this. 

What is theme?

400

Poetry is written in this form of lines.

What are stanzas?

400

You must ALWAYS do this AFTER you cite evidence from the text!!

What is explain?

400

The expected number of paragraphs of an extended response. List each part of an essay.

What is 4-5 and Introduction, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusion?

500

The difference between tone and mode.

What is tone is from the feelings of the author, while mood is from the feelings of the reader.

500

A type of descriptive language used to convey meaning in a way that differs from its literal meaning. Includes similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, allusions, and idioms

What is figurative language? 

500

The stages of the plot diagram and definition for each stage.

Exposition: introduction of characters, setting, and conflict. 

Rising Action: events and problems that develop the conflict. 

Climax: is the most important or exciting event. The characters change. 

Falling Action: events that help resolve the conflict. Characters find a solution to their problem.

Resolution: end of the conflict/story. Characters resolve their conflict.


500

When restating a complex question, most students actually forget this step. Comes after R in RACE.

What is Answer?

500

If your essay prompt is an argument, it must include these 4 elements.

What is a claim, reasoning, counterclaim, and evidence?