• Primarily nonfiction; some fiction
• Do not pre-judge difficulty of pieces of literature
• Answer as many questions as you can (If you can eliminate any answer – you should answer the question)
Types of Multiple Choice Questions:
Allusion Question
- Very specific question
- Hard to answer correctly if you do not recognize the allusion
- Easy if you know the allusion
- Knowledge vs. intuition
Dominant Device
- Dominant rhetorical device or technique
- What does the author do the most: use participles, use analogies
- Trick: could use all answers, but which is most dominant
- Introduce an idea
- Set the tone
- Solidify something
- Serve as a thesis
- Look for deeper meaning
- Do not be afraid to pick the obvious answer
- Eliminate the ones you know are wrong
- Pick from remaining
- X-out all of the correct answers
- What is left is the except answer
- Idea present throughout the work
- All or many answers my be present, but pick most predominate
- If answer fits for only part – it is wrong
- Most abstract usually wrong
- Answers with exact words from text are usually wrong
- What noun is the pronoun referring to
- Usually not the most obvious choice
- Replace pronoun with the noun to test possibilities
- Look for answer that represents main point in the quote
- Do not be distracted by the main idea of the passage
- You must know types of essays
- Look for clues in passage (e.g. examples, description, comparisons)
- Descriptive
- Narrative
- Using Definition
- Using Example
- Division and Classification
- Compare/Contrast
- Process
- Cause and Effect
- Argument
- Check combinations
- If one word does not apply – it is wrong
- Rely on diction/syntax in the passage
- (Trick) only what the speaker means at that point
- Usually specific to the subject matter
- Testing context relevance
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