What do letters have a sense of?

Sharing thoughts with a particular person

How can you tell a passage is a speech?

They have some particular rhetorical devices

What type of questions are most frequently asked in reading for meaning?

Questions about a passages main idea

Critical Reading questions can be divided into two two major types?

Reading for meaning and reading for analysis

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Section 1 - Literature - AP

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1
What elements are contained in fiction?
A) Setting, Character
A and B
None of the Above
B) Action
2
What is the tone in informational nonfiction?
Informative
Persuasive
Detached and matter of fact
Informational
3
What will the critical reading passage on the test be?
Excerpts from A Long Walk to Water
Based off of the Ted Talk
The Poems in the Selected Reading
An Unknown Passage
4
How many 8th graders are on our team?
0
1
2
3
5
When is an ironic tone normally used?
To criticize or mock
To persuade
To complement
To give deeper meaning
6
What, in some ways, makes the questions from the critical reading easier?
You can memorize them before you go
You will already know what the questions are
They will be easier questions
The answers are in the reading
7
Students might be required to identify which of the following?
The part of speech of a particular word
The modifier of a word
The antecedent of a certain pronoun
All of the above
8
You could be asked to determine the literary form of the passage - what's not a literary form?
Newspaper Columns and Magazine Articles
None of the Above
Fiction, Biography, Letters
Speeches, Essays
9
What do letters have a sense of?
Keen awareness to audience
Focus on one universal topic
Rhetorical devices peculiar to the genre
Sharing thoughts with a particular person
10
How can you tell a passage is a speech?
Focused on one universal interest
It looks like a poem, but with more punctuation
They have some particular rhetorical devices
Focused on one topic
11
What is the name of the book read for Pentathlon?
A Long Journey to Water
The Long Journey to Water
A Long Walk to Water
The Long Walk to Water
12
For some questions, what do they expect all students to already know?
Literary Devices Typically Acquired in English Class
All of the above
Vocabulary Typically Acquired in English Class
Terms Typically Acquired in English Class
13
What type of story is A Long Walk to Water?
An Epic
A Dual Narrative
A Saga
A Dual Ballad
14
Which section of the Pentathlon binder have we not started?
Literature
Social Science
Fine Arts
Science
15
Where do questions on the test on the content of the passage, or main idea, generally appear?
Second
Last
First
They don't appear
16
If the passage if non-fiction, what might the writer's purpose be?
To inform
All of the above
To persuade
To entertain
17
What are usually focused on one topic of contemporary, local, or universal interest?
Speeches
Narratives
Magazine Articles and Essays
Letters
18
What type of questions are most frequently asked in reading for meaning?
Questions about a passages main idea
Implicit questions
Questions about the word choice selection
Figurative questions
19
Critical Reading questions can be divided into two two major types?
Reading for meaning and reading for understanding
Reading for meaning and reading for analysis
Reading for understanding and reading for analysis
Reading to learn and learning to read
20
Typical questions on your test include questions on...
A) Theme, Historical Context, Purpose
B) Interpreting Meaning, Vocabulary, Context
A and B
C) Poetry that should be familiar to middle school students

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