Story Elements
Literary Devices
Grammar
Vocabulary
Test Taking Skills
100
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
100
The repeating of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
100
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence
What is a verb?
100
dis, mis, un, uni, tri, sub, semi, re, pre, non, multi
What is a prefix?
100

Do this first...

Read the questions before you read the passage.

200
people and animals in a story
What are characters?
200
An excessive overstatement or exaggeration of fact
What is hyperbole?
200
People, places, things, or ideas
What is a noun?
200
able, aholic, ant, cide, dom, ed, er
What is a suffix?
200

Highlighting and underlining important and/or confusing detials as you read

What is annotating the test?

300
The events and conflict that occur in a story
What is plot?
300
A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning
What is an idiom?
300
Describes or modifies a person, place, thing, or idea in the sentence
What is an adjective?
300
The base word without prefixes or suffixes
What is a root word?
300

How you should prepare the night before the test

What is going to bed on time and eating a good breakfast?

400
The problems or challenges that the characters must face or overcome in the story
What is conflict?
400
The comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms “like” or “as"
What is a metaphor?
400
A word that takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
400
Books, toys, peaches, men, oxen, women, foxes, daises
What are examples of plural words?
400

Finish this statement: "_____ to guess intelligently."

What is eliminate?

500

A lesson from the story or its comment about human nature.

What is the theme?

500
The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas
What is personification?
500
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb, answers the questions: how, when where, to what extent
What is an adverb?
500
Young-old, loud-quiet, big-little, tall-short, few-many
What are antonyms?
500

How do you compensate for the fact that test-makers are EVIL and they do not want EVERYONE TO PASS?

Read the questions carefully.  Annotate the questions.

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