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Secondary Test Prep.
Test Strategies and Literary Devices based on Allastair R. Webb's presentation
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| Main Idea | What the whole story or particular paragraph is mostly about? |
| Know the number you must get correct. | What is the 1st Test Strategy? |
| Context Clues | What are the surrounding and unknown words that help a student understand its meaning? |
| Carefully review questions. | What Reading Strategy should you do BEFORE reading the selection? |
| Summary | What is the process of briefly recounting the main idea of a piece of writing in a person's own words. |
| Flashback | What are scenes of events that occured earlier than those in the story? |
| Question Number | You should label and match the paragraph with the _____? |
| Switchback words | What are words that shift your thoughts called? They include- but, although, nevertheless, and even though. |
| Personification | What are human qualities given to animals, objects, or ideas called? |
| Tone | What's the author's attitude toward his or her story? |
| Theme | What is the underlying meaning of a literary work? |
| Key Words | What are words in the question that might lead you to the answer in a particular paragraph called? |
| Multiple - Meaning words | Words with more than one meaning are called what? |
| New | Correct answers will usually NOT contain this type of information? |
| Symbolism | What Literary Devices objects, persons, or experiences that stand for something else? |
| Metaphor | Comparisons of two things that do NOT use "like" or "as" is called? |
| Cause | "Why" something happens? |
| Facts | What are statements that can be proven called? |
| An inference | What is an educated guess based on evidence called? |
| Graphic Organizers | What are word webs,flow charts, and Venn diagrams called? |
| Scientific sounding answers | Which type of answers sound better than slang ones? |
| An opinion | What a person believes and cannot be proven is called what? |
| Extreme statements | You should avoid these types of answers because they are wild and highly controversial. |
| Compare | Determining how things are alike is called what? |
| Mood | What is the atmosphere or feeling the author creates through the details or language called? |
| Not flexible | You should avoid answers such as ...only, exactly, never, and always because they are |
| Point of view | The perspective from which the story is seen or told is called what? |
| Sequence | What is the order of events that happen in the story called? |
| Contrast | Determining how elements in a story are different is called what? |
| Generalization | What is the broad statement about an entire group called? |
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