myPerspectives Grade 6 Unit 1 Study Guide Part 1

Question 1

___________ point of view uses words like I, me, we, us, our.

Accepted Answer

First-person

Question 2

________________are evidence and examples that support the central idea.

Accepted Answer

Supporting details

Question 3

The main or __________ idea tells what the passage is mostly about.

Accepted Answer

central

Question 4

_____________ is using words in the place of sounds, like hiss, boom, clang.

Accepted Answer

Onomatopoeia

Question 5

An _____________ is a word that means the opposite of another word, like near and far.

Accepted Answer

antonym

Question 6

A ___________ is a word that means the same as another word, like near and close.

Accepted Answer

synonym

Question 7

The suffix __________ means "having the quality of."

Accepted Answer

-ness

Question 8

______________ writing tells the story of a real person and uses quotations from real people.

Accepted Answer

Biographical

Question 9

To find the author’s __________, you should determine the main idea of the passage.

Accepted Answer

purpose

Question 10

The ____________ of a story is the lesson the reader is supposed to learn.

Accepted Answer

theme

Question 11

Writers sometimes choose poetry to describe moments using ____________ words and images.

Accepted Answer

descriptive

Question 12

________________________ are any person, place, or thing and are NOT capitalized.

Accepted Answer

Common nouns

Question 13

In a poem, a __________ is a group of lines that act as a paragraph.

Accepted Answer

stanza

Question 14

_________________ are the words or sentences that help you figure out the meaning of an unknown word.

Accepted Answer

Context clues

Question 15

Stanzas can have different numbers of lines. A ___________ has 4 lines.

Accepted Answer

quatrain

Questions 15