6th grade ELA Test Prep Review

The sequence of events in a literary work

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

What is another word for PERSUADE?

Fictional characters with events in a historical setting

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

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

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

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

A conversation between characters

Struggle between opposing forces

Genre with informational facts

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

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

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

All of the students will try their best on the test!

A speaker or character who tells a story

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

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

The message or moral in a story

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

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

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

The turning point or high point in a story

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

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

Identify the verb: I ate a taco yesterday.

Time and place of a story

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

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

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

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

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