Test Prep Vocabulary

What does it mean to analyze a text?

• Read it

• Spell it

• Figure it out

• Provide a summary

What is the definition of a narrator's perspective?

• How he or she views the events in the story.

• How he or she ends a story.

• How he or she uses words with capital letters.

• How he or she begins a story.

Which of these is a cultural experience?

• A car slows down at a STOP sign.

• A family prepares a meal for a religious holiday.

• Birds sing in the trees.

• A new building is built in a town.

What is an excerpt?

• A novel.

• A box of paper clips.

• An entire poem.

• A smaller part of a larger story or text.

What is an artistic medium?

• Any piece of art - writing, visual art, sculpture, etc.

• Not the artistic beginning or end.

• A lease for an apartment.

• A person who can see the future.

Which of these is ONE aspect of a party?

• The sky

• Oatmeal

• People gathered together.

• An airplane

Aspect is another word for:

• Bear

• Floor

• Part

• Jelly

Rhetoric means:

• Computers and IPads

• It is cool today.

• The words used to persuade people.

• Paper and pen

When writing an argumentative essay, your claim is your:

• First line.

• Thesis sentence.

• Transition.

• Ending.

Relevant means:

• Rowing in a river.

• Coming together.

• Unnecessary.

• Necessary to what is going on.