Vocabulary
This term describes the message or lesson a poem wants readers to learn.
What is the theme?
This type of description appeals to the five senses to help readers picture what is happening.
What is imagery?
This is the writer’s main position, which they support with evidence.
What is the Claim/Argument?
This is adding, removing, moving, or changing the sentence structure while writing an essay.
What is Revising?
This is the number of answer choices that need to be eliminated.
What is two, no more and no less?
This is the narrator of a poem—the voice that is speaking.
Who or what is the speaker?
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to animals or objects. It makes non-human things act like people, helping readers connect emotionally.
What is personification?
The mnemonic used to remember the parts of an argumentative text and what it stands for.
What is OREOS- Opinion, Reasons, Evidence, Opinion, Summary
This is correcting capitalization, word usage, grammar, punctuation, and spelling while writing an essay.
What is editing?
This or these are the ways you can show your work/ annotations.
What are notes on paper, highlights online, or mixed of online and on paper?
This is the sentence that tells the reader what the author will be discussing throughout the passage, typically found in the first paragraph.
What is the Thesis Statement?
This term describes the poet’s attitude toward a topic—such as serious, playful, or annoyed.
What is tone?
This type of sentence clearly explains the reason supporting a claim, it helps explain why they think this.
What is a supporting reason?
What change is needed?
Original: Maria run to catch the bus before it left.
A. Change run to ran.
B. Change catch to catches.
C. Change left to leave.
D. No change needed.
What is Answer A?
This is my goal for this test.
What is my last STAAR score?
This term describes the perspective from which a story is told, such as first person, third person limited, or omniscient.
What is point of view?
This is the feeling or atmosphere a poem creates for the reader.
What is mood?
Facts, examples, and data that back up a claim are all forms of this.
What is evidence?
Which revision makes the sentence more concise?
Original: The students all worked together as a group to complete the project.
The students worked together to complete the project.
This is the length of time you need to spend actively working on the test before Mrs. Davidson will allow you to submit the test.
What is 2 times the number of questions. Ex: 25 questions times 2 equals 50 minutes spent on the test.
This is the mnemonic used to remember the types of figurative language AND what it stands for.
ISHAMPOO- Idiom, Simile, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Metaphor, Personification, Onomatopoeia, and Oxymoron
The wind whispered secrets through the trees,
While the golden leaves danced on the ground.
Question:
Select TWO literary devices used in this excerpt.
A. Simile
B. Personification
C. Imagery
D. Alliteration
E. Metaphor
F. Hyperbole
What is B. Personification and C. Imagery?
Writers include this to show they understand the opposite point of view—before refuting it.
What is a counterclaim and rebuttal?
Combine the sentences into one well-written sentence or two sentences that flow smoothly and clearly show the cause-and-effect relationship.
The school cafeteria added a salad bar. Students had been requesting healthier options for months. The principal agreed that the school needed to offer better choices.
What is "The school cafeteria added a salad bar because students had been requesting healthier options for months, and the principal agreed that the school needed to offer better choices."
This is how long an ECR and a SCR should be.
What is 2,300 characters (3-4 paragraphs) and 475 characters (1 paragraph)?