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Literary elements (5th grade) #5thgrade #reading #language arts #english
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The atmosphere in a story is
Where the story takes place
the mood or feeling created in a piece of writing
a brief story told to illustrate a point
The conflict in a story
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The way a story gets told by the author is the
text structure
author's purpose
point of view
text features
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What is the climax in a story?
the form of discourse that tells about a series of events
the series of related events in a story or a play
the moment where the story changes
the end of a story
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Which of the following is an example of hyperbole:
If I don’t get a Smartphone, I will die.
Life is good.
Pretty as a peach.
He moved slower than a turtle.
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Hyperbole is
a comparison between two things
speaker or write's choice of words
comparison using like or as
Incredible exaggeration or overstatement
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A simile is...
A comparison of two different things using like or as
A comparison of two completely different things
Sound words
Drawing a picture in the readers' minds
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What is characterization?
character crisis
the way the author shows us the character's personality
what the characters say
using context clues to find information about the family
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A saying where the words mean something completely different than what they really mean is...
Idiom
Allusion
Conflict
Metaphor
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Which of the following is an example of a personification?
The run down house was depressed.
The moon is like a white rose.
I could fly away.
Happy as a clam.
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Which of the following is an example of a metaphor:
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse !
The night was as black as coal.
Life is a journey!
The clock tick-tocked in the background.
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What is the conflict in a story?
why the author wrote the story
the vantage point from which a writer tells a story
the insight about human life that is revealed in a work
the struggle between two opposing characters or force.
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Which of the following is an example a simile?
The tree cried itself to sleep.
Boom! Went the cannon ball.
The lighting roared through the night as I slept.
Last night, I slept like a log.
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The setting in a story is
why the story takes place
the mood or feeling created in a piece of writing
the time and location in which a story takes place
brief story told to illustrate a point
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Which of the following is an example of allusion:
My mom is going to kill me.
Hungry as a horse.
Your backyard is a Garden of Eden.
The wall came crashing down.
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Personification in literature is
the literal or dictionary meaning of a word
the main idea in a story
human feelings or attitudes in an object or animal
a comparison using like or as
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Imagery in a story is
the use of a language to make a picture in the reader's mind
a comparison between two unlike things ·
why the author wrote the story
the vantage point from which a writer tells a story
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When characters talk back and forth with each other it is called...
Dialogue
Setting
Drama
Allusion
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Plot is
where we get clues to what will happen later in the story
the most exciting part of a story
the events that take place in story
when and where the story happens
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Who is the antagonist in a story?
The hero in a story.
The opponent who struggles against the hero.
The person's role model.
The series of related events in a story or a play
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What is Alliteration?
The literal or dictionary meaning of a word.
A speaker or writer’s choice of words to fit context.
The purpose of a story.
The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words.
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Onomatopoeia is
the central character in a story
the use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning
the use of human characteristics for nonhuman things
the series of related events in a story or a play
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The protagonist in a story is
a secondary character
not the main character
the villain
the central character in a story or play
