Test Taking Tips

Biographies, fictional, nonfiction, poetry are all types of

You can tell an author's tone by the words he uses in the story or poem.

Which is an example of a theme?

What is a paragraph in poetry called?

Which line has a sensory detail?

What do you capitalize in the title?

Identify the figurative language: The girl was a spider as she knitted her scarf!

Can I look back into passage as many times as I want for an answer?

There can be many settings in a book or a movie.

What is the rhyme pattern? I went riding, riding, riding. My mind was free. I felt free as a bird.

An idiom is fig. language that is a far-fetched comparison. Which is?

Where do I look if I come across an unknown word in article?

Process of eliminate means

Identify the figurative language: Sunny is like a computer since she can add and subtract so fast!

What is a footnote?

Sensory details are the main details in a passage.

True or false this is a timed state test.

Theme of a story is the moral or a lesson that is learned.

Hear, smell, taste, touch, and see are sensory details.

I believe the Browns will have a great season this year. Fact or opinion?

What genre has characters, setting, problem, resolution

What genre is based on facts that can be proven. Ex: Science and math books?

Use evidence from the passage to support your answer means...

Words are in bold or italics to bring attention to that word.

The climax, or turning point, is where the decision is made in a fiction book.

What is a caption?

Lea tells a joke in class. What is her purpose?

Mr. Bray handed out a registration paper for basketball tryouts. What is his purpose?

What is a sentence in Poetry called?

Where do you begin reading a story?

Which statement is an opinion?

These are examples of what figurative language? Bam! Splat! Swoosh!

When should I copy from the text?

Author's Purpose for writing is P, I, E....Persuade, Inform, or Entertain. T or F

Story elements are characters, setting, plot (problem) resolution.

Where do I find what articles are in a book?

Figurative Language: My hair is like a horse's tail since it is so course.

RP Mary had a little lamb, her fleece wash white as snow, every where that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go!

Figurative Language is something you say to compare that you really do not mean.

Everyone in this class is an author.

Selecting the Main Idea is choosing

Personification is giving something NOT human, human characteristics. Which is an example?

Which is an example of 3rd person?

Based on his grades, he knew he was in trouble. Predicting ahead is called what?

Damir wants sends an email asking for everyone to vote him class president. What is his purpose?

Which line is not a sensory detail?

Why should I do my best on the test?

What genre is it when a person writes a book or memoir about themselves?

Which statement is a fact?

It's not important to eat breakfast or get a good night's sleep!

The falling action is in the beginning of a story.

What point of view is a personal journal?

Which sentence is 1st person?

The rising action is the boring part of a story!