MCT
Trace correct answers follow, outline, show the steps from beginning to end
Analyze correct answers take apart, break into parts & explain, tell the good & bad
Infer correct answers guess in an educated way from the context, read between the
lines, what do you think it means?
Evaluate correct answers judge, give your opinion, give it a grade
Formulate correct answers come up with, develop, build, create, show process
Describe correct answers give details and tell all about it in your own words, tell: who,
what, when, where, how, & why
Support correct answers give reasons, defend your answer, back it up
Explain correct answers tell more stuff, what does it mean, tell all about it
Summarize correct answers tell the important stuff in your own words
Compare correct answers tell how they are alike
Contrast correct answers show all the ways they are different
Predict correct answers tell what you think will happen next
Hyperbole correct answers an overstatement or exaggeration (I told you a million
times)
Alliteration correct answers the repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of words
(Mary made muddy messes)
Onomatopoeia correct answers words that imitate sounds (tick tock)
Airing and rebutting correct answers presenting an opponent's viewpoint and then
arguing against it
Appositive correct answers word or phrase that describes a noun (Mrs. McCoy, a fourth
grade teacher)
Trace correct answers follow, outline, show the steps from beginning to end
Analyze correct answers take apart, break into parts & explain, tell the good & bad
Infer correct answers guess in an educated way from the context, read between the
lines, what do you think it means?
Evaluate correct answers judge, give your opinion, give it a grade
Formulate correct answers come up with, develop, build, create, show process
Describe correct answers give details and tell all about it in your own words, tell: who,
what, when, where, how, & why
Support correct answers give reasons, defend your answer, back it up
Explain correct answers tell more stuff, what does it mean, tell all about it
Summarize correct answers tell the important stuff in your own words
Compare correct answers tell how they are alike
Contrast correct answers show all the ways they are different
Predict correct answers tell what you think will happen next
Hyperbole correct answers an overstatement or exaggeration (I told you a million
times)
Alliteration correct answers the repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of words
(Mary made muddy messes)
Onomatopoeia correct answers words that imitate sounds (tick tock)
Airing and rebutting correct answers presenting an opponent's viewpoint and then
arguing against it
Appositive correct answers word or phrase that describes a noun (Mrs. McCoy, a fourth
grade teacher)
