Duplicate of ELA Test Prep Review

A conversation between characters

Struggle between opposing forces

The message or moral in a story

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

Identify the verb: I ate a taco yesterday.

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

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

The turning point or high point in a story

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

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

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

Synonym for close reading:

In favor of or against one thing unfairly

short response questions should

Fictional characters with events in a historical setting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Extended response questions should:

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

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

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

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

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

A person, object or action that represents something else

What is another word for PERSUADE?

Time and place of a story

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

Genre with informational facts

Main idea of a passage

A speaker or character who tells a story

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

The sequence of events in a literary work