ELA Test Prep Review

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

Which type of conflict is this? The Batman tries to capture or kill the Joker.

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

Identify the verb: I ate a taco yesterday.

The sequence of events in a literary work

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

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

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

A conversation between characters

A speaker or character who tells a story

The message or moral in a story

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

Which type of conflict is this? I went skiing and there was an avalanche. 

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

The turning point or high point in a story

A character who changes during the story

Feelings or ideas associated with a word (your definition)

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

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

Struggle between opposing forces

A character who stays the same during the story

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

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

Genre with informational facts

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

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

In favor of or against one thing unfairly

Time and place of a story

Which type of conflict is this? Sam got arrested for stealing a car.

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

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

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

Fictional characters with events in a historical setting

What is the dictionary definition of a word called?

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

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

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

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

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

A person, object or action that represents something else

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

What is another word for thesis?