ELA State Test
What is main idea?:
Used in a pie, this fruit comes in both green and red shades.
What is an apple?
He is known as 'The Father Of Our Country.' Possibly our first president?
Who is George Washington?
With such hits as 'Bad' and 'Billie Jean,' this artist was a real Thriller.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Ayda was so hungry that she didn't leave a single PARTICLE of muffin on her plate.
What is a small amount?
The author's message to the reader, or the moral.
What is theme?
Tastes great in summer to cool you down. 92% of this fruit is water.
What is a watermelon?
Expansionism was a move in which direction.
What is the West?
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. They composed this type of music.
What is classical music?>
What is to recognize or understand the difference between?
Maya stared at the empty seat at her lunch table, her stomach twisting tighter than her shoelaces. All week, she’d tried to act cooler, mimicking the popular girls' laughter, but it felt like wearing a backpack stuffed with rocks. Watching her old best friend, Sam, laughing genuinely with someone new, Maya realized that pretending to be someone else was exhausting and lonely.
What is the theme of this text?
What is Be True To Yourself or Don't Pretend To Be Someone You're Not?
A type of banana with a Spanish twist.
What is a platano or plantain?
This U.S President abolished slavery and carried the country through the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
___________ hop.
What is hip?
After the new line of video game console came out on the market, sales for the older models DECLINED.
What is to gradually become smaller in size or number?
Comparing two unlike things without using like our as.
What is a metaphor?
String _____________.
What are beans?
These laws enforced and regulated racial segregation in the South from the mid 19th Century to 1965.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
This kind of music originated out of the rural areas of America and utilizes storytelling and guitar strings to tell a story.
What is country music?
Though Joseph was the king, his uncle USURPED the throne and was now ruling the land quite cruelly.
What is to take control over illegally or to seize power?
The word GRIEVANCE as used in the following sentence means _________________________. The workers wrote an anonymous letter to their boss expressing their many GRIEVANCES: long working hours, low pay, and dangerous working conditions.
What is a formal, documented complaint?
DAILY DOUBLE!! Grown underground, this vegetable goes well when mashed... and maybe with gravy.
What is a potato?
A gift from France, 'she' stands as a symbol for freedom in the Hudson River.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Born in Brooklyn and murdered in 2020, his huge hit was 'Welcome To The Party.'
Who is Pop Smoke?
Cassie did not want to go to the party. She wanted to study for the state exam, but her sister nagged her so much that she ACQUIESCED and agreed to go.
What is to give in reluctantly?