Language Arts review

Question 1

There are three types of author's purpose. What are they?

Accepted Answer

entertain, inform, persuade

Question 2

What is setting?

Accepted Answer

time and place

Question 3

Who tells the story?

Accepted Answer

the narrator

Question 4

What is the conflict of a story?

Accepted Answer

the problem in the story

Question 5

What is main idea?

Accepted Answer

what the story is about

Question 6

What word ends with a suffix that means "the quality of being?"

Accepted Answer

laziness

Question 7

What point of view is the "main character" in the story?

Accepted Answer

first person

Question 8

The author's attitude toward his/her subject is known as the "what?"

Accepted Answer

tone

Question 9

What are the talking animals, creatures, and people in the story called?

Accepted Answer

characters

Question 10

Which of the following is an example of personification?

Accepted Answer

The floor yawned and swallowed me whole.

Question 11

Key words for this text structure are "because, so" and "therefore."

Accepted Answer

cause/effect

Question 12

Which words have a prefix that mean "again?"

Accepted Answer

restart, redo, rewind

Question 13

What is the when and where of the story called?

Accepted Answer

setting

Question 14

What key words would you use for compare/contrast text structure?

Accepted Answer

similar, unlike, alike

Question 15

Which words have a prefix?

Accepted Answer

preheat, redo, incorrect

Question 16

What is theme? (2)

Accepted Answer

the lesson learned, The moral of the story

Question 17

What is the climax of a story? (2)

Accepted Answer

a change in the character whether good or bad, the turning point of the story

Question 18

What is plot?(2)

Accepted Answer

a series of events in a story, the sqeuence of events in a story

Question 19

What are the two parts of inferencing?

Accepted Answer

stuff I already know, information given to me from what I am reading

Question 20

What is a hyperbole?

Accepted Answer

extreme exaggeration

Questions 20