Literature
Informational
Testing Terms
Figurative Language
Grammar
100
What is the setting of a story?
Where/when the story takes place
100
What does chronological order mean?
order of events from first to last
100
What does it mean to develop something in a text? Ex: "How does the author develop the character's personalities in the story?"
To create or produce
100
She is busy as a bee.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Simile
100
What is a noun?
person, place, thing, or idea
200
The problem of the story
conflict
200
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To tell how things are the same or different
200
What is an argument?
An attempt to persuade someone of something
200
"You are my sunshine" is an example of?
A metaphor
200
What is an action word?
Verb
300
The message or lesson of the story.
Theme
300
What is an author's claim?
The main point the author is trying to convince you of
300
Explain the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction = a made up story
Nonfiction = text based on factual information
300
What type of figurative language? "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!"
Hyperbole
300
What punctuation marks do you use to cite direct evidence from the text?
Quotation marks
400
When the narrator uses "She, He, they" it is written in this perspective. (______ person)
Third Person
400
What is a central idea?
What a nonfiction text is mostly about
400
What does it mean to analyze?
To look closely/examine a text and determine a deeper meaning
400
What type of figurative language? "The spring flowers greeted me as I walked out of my house this morning."
Personification
400
A word that takes the place of a noun (ex: she, him, they, our, my, it)
Pronoun
500
Put the following plot elements in order: climax, falling action, rising action, resolution, exposition.
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
500
Define cause and effect AND give key words
Test structure that tells what happens and why, key words: as a result, because, It/then, etc.
500
What does it mean to make an inference?
Make an educated guess based on evidence in the text
500
What is figurative language?
When you are not supposed to take something literally
500
How many nouns are in this sentence:
Bradley and Dillon drove past the store and quickly parked by Chipotle.
4