Test Lingo

emphasize

• to ignore that this is important in a section

• To highlight, or make a big deal out of

What does this mean?

"How does the setting affect the plot?"

• What is important about where this story is taking place?

• it means that the plot is not really important to the story. It is only the beginning, middle and end.

Cause-and-effect structure

• When the author tells you the reason why something is happening and the effect (result) it has on someone or something

• when the author tells you the problem and then later answers it with the solution to the problem

Which audience is the author addressing?

• Who is the author writing the story to?

• addressing means talking to someone but they are not listening

statement

• Sentence or phrase

• an opinion the author has

Author’s claim

• What does the author think? What is he/she trying to convince you of?

• what does the author believe about their pets

When I read on the test

"What is the most likely reason?"

this simply means-

• WHY

• HOW

Selection

• Story or passage

• wrong or right

replace

• replace means add to

• Take the place of

combine

• replace

• Put together