FAST Test Prep UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
parallelism/parallel structure - When an author uses the same sentence structure is a series of
sentences to connect those ideas together.
Metaphor - When an author compares two unrelated thing for dramatic effect or for the purpose
of description.
Rhetorical Question - When an author asks something without expecting an answer in order to
make a point.
Rhetoric - The writing strategies an author uses to make an argument or to advance their purpose.
Multiple Choice - A question that provides option and only one is correct.
Biography - A biography is an informational text that tells the story of a person's life, but is told
by someone else.
Text Structure - The way an author chooses to organize the content of the text.
Objective Summary - An overview of only the most important events or elements within a text
that simply states what the text was about and does not include any opinions.
Tone - The way an author feels about the subject or events that he or she writes about, as
evidenced by the word choice.
Compare and Contrast - Compare and contrast is a text structure in which events are compared
(to determine how they are similar) and contrasted (to determine how they are different). Signal
words such as like, same, similar to, or different than can be used.
, Connotation - Connotation is the feeling or idea associated with a word from its context, rather
than the dictionary definition.
Context Clues - Context clues are words in a sentence surrounding an unfamiliar word that help
the reader figure out the word's meaning.
Expository Text - Expository text is informational text that explains a topic using facts and visual
images. It may include photographs to illustrate the text, graphs to show relationships among
data, or sidebars to provide G3 information from different points of view
Figurative Language - Figurative language are the use of words, phrase, symbols, or ideas to
paint a picture in the reader's mind. It includes similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and
personification.
First-Person Point of View - First-person point of view in fiction is when one character is the
narrator telling the story. The author uses the pronoun I.
Historical Fiction - Historical fiction is a type of literary text that has a real setting drawn from
history and presents actual events from the point of view of fictional people living in a historical
time period. It may also refer to real people from the past and include foreign words, dialogue, or
dialect that reflect the setting
Hyperbole - An hyperbole is an exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally; for example,
hotter than a million suns.
Idiom - An idiom is an expression whose meaning goes beyond the meanings of the individual
words and cannot be defined using those words; for example, it's raining cats and dogs
Imagery - Imagery is the use of specific language to create a picture in the reader's mind.
CORRECT Answers
parallelism/parallel structure - When an author uses the same sentence structure is a series of
sentences to connect those ideas together.
Metaphor - When an author compares two unrelated thing for dramatic effect or for the purpose
of description.
Rhetorical Question - When an author asks something without expecting an answer in order to
make a point.
Rhetoric - The writing strategies an author uses to make an argument or to advance their purpose.
Multiple Choice - A question that provides option and only one is correct.
Biography - A biography is an informational text that tells the story of a person's life, but is told
by someone else.
Text Structure - The way an author chooses to organize the content of the text.
Objective Summary - An overview of only the most important events or elements within a text
that simply states what the text was about and does not include any opinions.
Tone - The way an author feels about the subject or events that he or she writes about, as
evidenced by the word choice.
Compare and Contrast - Compare and contrast is a text structure in which events are compared
(to determine how they are similar) and contrasted (to determine how they are different). Signal
words such as like, same, similar to, or different than can be used.
, Connotation - Connotation is the feeling or idea associated with a word from its context, rather
than the dictionary definition.
Context Clues - Context clues are words in a sentence surrounding an unfamiliar word that help
the reader figure out the word's meaning.
Expository Text - Expository text is informational text that explains a topic using facts and visual
images. It may include photographs to illustrate the text, graphs to show relationships among
data, or sidebars to provide G3 information from different points of view
Figurative Language - Figurative language are the use of words, phrase, symbols, or ideas to
paint a picture in the reader's mind. It includes similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and
personification.
First-Person Point of View - First-person point of view in fiction is when one character is the
narrator telling the story. The author uses the pronoun I.
Historical Fiction - Historical fiction is a type of literary text that has a real setting drawn from
history and presents actual events from the point of view of fictional people living in a historical
time period. It may also refer to real people from the past and include foreign words, dialogue, or
dialect that reflect the setting
Hyperbole - An hyperbole is an exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally; for example,
hotter than a million suns.
Idiom - An idiom is an expression whose meaning goes beyond the meanings of the individual
words and cannot be defined using those words; for example, it's raining cats and dogs
Imagery - Imagery is the use of specific language to create a picture in the reader's mind.
