6th GRADE final exam A

PATHOS: these supports affect your heart. They use emotion to build a case based on feelings.

Personification is a figure of speech where human traits are given to something nonhuman or nonliving.

Tone in a story is the attitude we express.

Allusion is a reference to someone or something popularly known throughout history, religion, or culture.

Ms. Sprouse’s descriptions of being laughed at come from the ________________ of the story’s plot.

If you compare two stories, what type of connection are you making?

Which of the following best describes the idea of Yin and Yang in “The Cosmic Egg”?

What style of writing are the stories set in a certain time and place and are based on facts from the author's life?

If you write, “From this famous story, the greatest life lesson I learned is that…..” in your journal, you are doing a

Connotation is the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.

What type of literary devices does Marta use if she makes trees seem human in a poem about trees dancing in the wind?

Hook: the strategies authors use to get their readers attention at the beginning of a text and make them keep reading.

“My grandma makes the best cake in the world.” This is an example of a ________truth.

A story from a specific culture that has been passed down for thousands of years is called............

Denotation is an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

A good explanation for what the close-reading skill of analyzing a story would be is_________.

Reflection is kind of like the story we tell ourselves about our lives.

A person’s attitude or beliefs about a specific topic is their ____________.

The style and personality of telling a story, which is unique to each story is called ________________.

What central idea is shared in “The Cosmic Egg”?