ELA Test Prep Review

A conversation between characters

Words with repeated beginning sounds (ex: sally sells seashells)

What is the dictionary definition of a word called?

Which type of conflict is this? I went skiing and there was an avalanche. 

What type of conflict? Suzy is sooo nervous about asking out David to the dance.

What is another word for PERSUADE?

A category or type of literature (fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, etc)

A speaker or character who tells a story

Story with magic and things that wouldn't exist in today's world.

Fictional characters with events in a historical setting

Identify the verb: I ate a taco yesterday.

The turning point or high point in a story

Struggle between opposing forces

The overall atmosphere of a literary work (how the reader feels)

When the author gives clues and hints as to what might happen later in the story

The comparison of two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

The comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

A character who changes during the story

The sequence of events in a literary work

Identify the adjective: No one wanted to live by the smelly landfill.

Mrs. Phillips students will try their best on the test!

Type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

The narrator is NOT in the story and knows EVERYONE'S thoughts and feelings

The message or moral in a story

Which type of conflict is this? Sam got arrested for stealing a car.

Identify the verb(s): I ran like the wind today.

When an author interrupts the present moment to tell what happened in the past

Which type of conflict is this? Another classmate is spreading rumors about you.

The narrator is in the story and uses words like I, ME, MINE, WE, US

Feelings or ideas associated with a word (your definition)

The narrator is NOT in the story and only knows ONE person's thoughts and feelings

The use of words to imitate sounds (bang, pow, pop...)

Time and place of a story

A person, object or action that represents something else

A person or an animal who takes part in the action of a story

In favor of or against one thing unfairly

Genre with informational facts

A character who stays the same during the story

Which type of conflict is this? The Batman tries to capture or kill the Joker.

Identify the nouns: Mrs. G is our school secretary.

Adjectives? An old and overweight dog sat under the bright sun.

A story that takes place in the future and has scientific advances in technology

The writer's attitude toward the subject they're writing about