6th Grade Language Arts Review Key Terms SBA

Question 1

Is the "author's tone" an author's attitude toward a particular written subject?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Is indirect characterization when a story shows things that reveal the personality of a character?

Accepted Answer

Uh... Yeah!

Question 3

"Plot" is the main events inside a story.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Is a 'pronoun' words such as he, she, it, they?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Is rising action after the climax?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Is evidence supposed to contradict your claim?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

What are context clues?

Accepted Answer

Hints found in a sentence or passage that helps a reader understand

Question 8

What is third person?

Accepted Answer

A narrator who tells a story without describing what a character feels

Question 9

Fill in the blank: "Amanda had ___ dolls. One she got from her mom, the other from grandma."

Accepted Answer

Two

Question 10

What is characterization?

Accepted Answer

The creation or construction of a fictional character.

Question 11

What is third person limited point of view?

Accepted Answer

When the character only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character

Question 12

What do we call the group of lines in a poem?

Accepted Answer

Stanzas

Question 13

What is the "central idea"?

Accepted Answer

The most important idea in a text

Question 14

Are sensory details sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Does 'summarize' mean to use many specific details to explain something?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Dynamic, static, round, flat, protagonist, and antagonist all types of characters.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Internal, external, person vs person, and person vs society are types of ...

Accepted Answer

Conflict

Question 18

What is "author's purpose"?

Accepted Answer

The reason for or intent in writing

Question 19

Is a synonym something that means the same thing?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

What is "theme"?

Accepted Answer

The bigger message in the story

Question 21

What does justify mean?

Accepted Answer

Show or prove to be right

Question 22

Does interpret mean to explain the meaning of?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Which one is NOT a type of figurative language?

Accepted Answer

definitions

Question 24

Is this sentence correct?: "Bring you're textbooks to class tomorrow."

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

Poetry must rhyme to be considered "true poetry".

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

What is author's perspective?

Accepted Answer

What the situation looks like from where the author is standing.

Question 27

What is the best definition of a character trait?

Accepted Answer

Parts that make up a character's personality

Question 28

Is direct characterization when the author tells the personality of a character?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

What is mood?

Accepted Answer

How a reader feels after reading a book

Question 30

Does cite mean to quote a text?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

Is the climax the turning point of a story?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

What point of view is the following sentence?: "I want to go outside today."

Accepted Answer

First Person

Question 33

Is the setting the time or place a book is set in?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

Is the resolution the end of a story?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

What is point of view?

Accepted Answer

The narrator's position in relation to a story being told

Question 36

What is the falling action?

Accepted Answer

A part of a story before the end.

Question 37

What is a "symbol" in a story?

Accepted Answer

An object that represents something important

Question 38

What is the exposition of a story?

Accepted Answer

The beginning of a story.

Question 39

Is this sentence written in a 2nd person point of view?: "I don't know why I do that so much."

Accepted Answer

False

Question 40

Is a summary wrapping a book up and writing about only the important parts?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

Is the theme a lesson?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

Third person omniscient is when a narrator knows everything about what a character is feeling and thinking.

Accepted Answer

True

6th Grade Language Arts Review Key Terms SBA

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6th Grade Language Arts Review Key Terms SBA

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