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Duplicate of NWEA READING REVIEW
Duplicate of NWEA READING REVIEW
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Review of reading skills learned in class. #6thGrade
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Which idiom matches the description? Someone that gets on your nerves...
pain in the neck
ray of sunlight
whiz kid
early bird
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Figurative language that appeals to the five senses
stereotype
pun
imagery
simile
3
Speech that involves words that contradict each other
irony
oxymoron
satire
flashback
4
The life lesson taught in a literary work that applies to the real world
theme
textual evidence
main idea
rising action
5
Commercials, ads, billboards, and reviews are all examples of what type of author's purpose?
entertainment
persuasion
none of these
informative
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The movie star's large and beautiful home was
palatial
.
tiny
like a palace
ugly
for dogs
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The gymnast could not do a cartwheel...
metaphor
satire
irony
allusion
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If you are looking for maps you should reference this source...
atlas
dictionary
book of poetry
novel
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Our goal in this class is to..........
acquire skills/strategies to better understand what we read
become better readers
do what we want
grow on NWEA
10
All old people are crabby...
tone
stereotype
pun
symbolism
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Found missing and alone together are examples of...
personification
oxymoron
irony
understatement
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Figure of speech where a situation seems less serious than it is
metaphor
hyperbole
pun
understatement
13
Foreshadowing in a story is something that gives us a what?
context clues about word meaning
warning
hints about what will happen
evidence for an essay
14
The Willis Tower in downtown Chicago stands with over 100 floors with windows and offices
tone and mood
spatial/descriptive
conflict
compare and contrast
15
Facts that are updated each year can be found in a....
dictionary
thesaurus
encyclopedia
almanac
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Multiple meaning words that have the same spelling but different meanings
homonym
synonym
antonym
homophone
17
I am the opposite of a hyperbole...
understatement
allusion
literally
idiom
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Poem where 4 lines have alternating rhyme patterns
haiku
ballad
couplet
quatrain
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The long hike up to the top of the mountain was extremely
grueling.
tiring
loud
happy
easy
20
Typewriters became
obsolete
with the development of personal computers.
popular
careful
out-dated
round
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She's always getting
zany
ideas.
bad
silly
crazy
gross
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Mood is to reader as tone is to...
reader
characters
narrator
author
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I thought Santa would be late but he arrived in the Nick of time. I am a...
irony
satire
pun
rhyme scheme
24
The dictionary meaning of a word...
definition
denotative
connotative
25
Roaches infested the office of a pest control center. This is an example of what?
metaphor
pun
irony
symbolism
26
You can find synonyms and antonyms of words in this reference...
thesaurus
encyclopedia
dictionary
almanac
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Antisocial means...
against
talkative
friendly
not sociable
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An article about the duties of the President of the United States... author's purpose?
entertain
inform
persuade
29
Wordlessly
, Big Darrell handed over one of the suitcases...
loudly
speechless, silent or mute
powerful
full of force
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I could hear the popping and cracking of the bacon going into the pan...
simile
onomatopoeia
imagery
hyperbole
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You should do all of the following for context clue questions on the test EXCEPT:
go back in the text and circle the word
read the entire passage
plug in the answer choices in the sentence
read the sentence around the word