ELA MCAS Review

You need ________ to support your claim

Information taken directly from a text to support your claim is :

The blurb of an MCAS passage is....

"The leaves danced in the moonlight as they slowly fell from the lonely trees" is example of

Theme is usually linked to what genre?

Giving human qualities to non-living things

To persuade, to inform, to entertain, are three examples of :

A short part of a larger text is called :

Context is...

How long is a typical MCAS essay?

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

Tone is :

A paragraph in an essay should include....

What is a stanza?

A comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

language that applies to the five senses

When a multiple choice question asks you to go back to paragraph 3, you should

Central Idea and Theme are synonyms

The theme of a story or poem is...

What is the plot of a story?

Central Ideas are usually associated with which genre?

Text structure is

Non-fiction is a genre that contains stories that are

What is the first thing you should do when previewing the MCAS passage?

The theme of a story is created by

Fictional stories are :

The central idea of a text is ....

A claim statement is...

"The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple fog" is an example of

"The leaves are like little yellow fish swimming in the river" is an example of

Before you read and annotate the text you should....

A narrator who tells a story using the pronoun "I" is telling the story from the

When answering multiple choice questions I should...

"Time is a thief" is an example of

If you don't know a vocabulary word in a text you should..

A theme statement should include specific details from a passage such as a specific character