岛与幕歌So, if a question asks what sort of attitude an author had towards the passage or subject, then look throughout the passage for attitude words that might convey a positive or negative attitude. Are words such as brilliant, excited, delightful used, or are words such as
depressive, gloomy, disappointing used?
A lot of questions could be answered correctly simply by going through and circling all the adjectives in a passage. Without looking at
anything else except for the adjectives in a passage, most questions about attitude or emotion could be answered correctly.
Another way of handling these situations is to arrange all of the
answer choices in a list going from most negative to most positive.
Example:
Question: The author’s attitude on this topic is best described as:
A. indignation
B. eagerness
C. impartiality
D. fear
Now arrange these in order from negative to positive:
( - ) indignation, fear, impartiality, eagerness (+)
This will help sort out the different choices and keep you from
overlooking an answer choice and making an easy mistake.
Strategy 7: Finding the Key Words
