Strategies
A question that asks about THIS wants to know what the text was all about.
What is the main idea?
THIS kind of text has stanzas and lines, and often uses figurative language.
What is a poem?
THIS is a false belief.
What is a delusion?
A question that asks "Why" usually has an answer with THIS word in it.
What is "because"?
THIS is all the letters a language uses.
What is the Alphabet?
THIS is the word for marking the text to write your thoughts or what's important.
What is annotating?
An article with the purpose of providing data to the reader can be described with THIS adjective.
What is informative?
THIS figurative language device describes non-human things with human characteristics.
What is personification?
A question with the word "How" usually has an answer with THIS word in it.
What is "by"?
THIS is a long form of writing you are asked to complete, usually with 3-5 paragraphs.
What is an Essay?
Unfamiliar words in a passage may have a small number beside them, indicating that they have THIS at the bottom of the page to explain.
What is a footnote?
An autobiographical story about the author's life is THIS kind of text.
What is a memoir?
THIS describes all the associations a word has, besides its actual definition - any connected ideas, feelings, etc.
What is a connotation?
A question that asks about two subjects likely wants you to make THIS between them.
What is a comparison?
Figurative language has a meaning that is not THIS.
What is Literal?
THIS strategy increases your chances on multiple choice questions, by getting rid of the ones you know are wrong.
What is process of elimination?
THIS text is only part of a larger text.
What is an excerpt?
A monologue is one person talking. THIS means at least two people talking.
What is dialogue?
A question about affecting the mood or the reader should have you focused on THIS reaction.
What are emotions/feelings?
Finding supporting details from a text means you are bringing THIS.
What is Evidence?
THIS acronym stands for the steps of writing a short response, to make sure your answer includes all the parts it needs.
What is R.A.C.E.?
THESE parts of a play are not spoken by the actors. Instead, it gives them instructions or describes the setting.
What are stage directions?
Something that means the opposite of what it says, such as sarcasm, is an example of THIS.
What is verbal irony?
What is an inference?
THIS is what "E.L.A." actually stands for.
What is English Language Arts?