English Regents Writing Guide
Forsyth Satellite Academy HS
Regents Prep w/Sheri and Dave
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SAMPLE # 27 – Literary Technique Paragraph
Short Response Questions
Directions (26-27): Write your response to question 26 on page 1 of your essay booklet and question 27 on page 2 of your essay
booklet. Be sure to answer both questions.
26
Write a well-developed paragraph in which you use ideas from both passages to establish a controlling idea about
possessions. Develop your controlling idea using specific examples and details from each passage.
27
Choose a specific literary element (e.g. theme, characterization, structure, point of view, etc.) or literary technique (e.g.
symbolism, irony, figurative language, etc.) used by one of the authors. Using specific details from that passage, in a welldeveloped paragraph, show how the author uses that element or technique to develop the passage.
Sample response for #27 – DO NOT copy this paragraph on any assignment!
Passage 1 is about possessions. In this passage the
1. Topic Sentence
Passage 1 is about topic.
author uses imagery to develop the idea of possessions. One 2. Tell me what literary element
the author uses. Tell me what
image that the author uses is “the tray of forks at your
he develops.
elbow.” This image is a good example of the subject of
possessions because it represents one of the many things
3. Introduce the first example of
the literary element.
that Mrs. Caldera keeps because she believes it is important,
but that other people may believe to be of no value at all.
Another image the author uses is “Upstairs, where her
children slept, the doors will not close.” The reason the
4. Introduce the second example
of the literary element.
doors will not close is because of all the possessions that
Mrs. Caldera keeps in there. For example, there are “stacks
of magazines, snowshoes, lampshades, bedsprings and
picture tubes.” The author uses imagery to develop the idea
that Mrs. Caldera’s possessions are important to her, but are
probably of no use to anyone else.
5. Conclude by explaining how
the author uses this to develop
the passage.
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The author uses
to develop the
idea that…
The author uses to make the story
more realistic…
The author uses
to teach us
about life.
English Regents Writing Guide
Forsyth Satellite Academy HS
Regents Prep w/Sheri and Dave
[email protected]
# 27 Organizer
Passage
is about
(1 or 2)
. In this passage the author uses
topic
to develop the idea of
choose a literary element
. One example is
topic
give example
.
This
is a good example of
literary element
because
topic
explain why the example is important
.
is
Another example of
literary element
give example
.
This
is a good example of
literary element
because
topic
explain why the example is important
.
to teach readers
The author uses
literary element
.
What does it teach us?
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