ELA Review 6th Grade

a poem that is highly musical and expresses observations and feelings of a single speaker

the part of a story where the characters, setting and basic situation is introduced

the pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in a line of poetry

 a comparison between two or more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unalike

all of the following are types of figurative language, except: 

is a story written to be performed by actors

is the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group

the story of the writer's own life

a subject is spoken/written of as thought it were something else... several comparisons made

the highest point of action in a story

when a writer tells the story of another person

Carolyn Maul McKinstry's conflict could be identified as:

is the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later

real events, places, or people are incorporated into a fictional or made-up story

a poem with a shape that suggests its subject

a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event

the repetition of initial consonant sounds

prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events

words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five sense

a character or a force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist

All of the following are types of irony except: 

a poem that is humorous, rhyming, 5-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme aabba

Which of the following is a literary genre? 

is a portrait, in words, of a person, place, or object

poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter

is a conversation between characters...set off by quotation marks

writing that explains or informs

the act of creating and developing a character