Beginning of Year ELA Review 1

Fiction

100

Something that the character in a story wants to change, fix, or figure out is the -

A. solution

B. problem

C. plot

B. problem

200

Putting events of a story in the order in which they happened is - 

A. climax

B. plot

C. sequence

C. sequence

300

The time, place, or environment where the story occurs -

A. setting

B. location

C. plot

A. setting

400

Sequencing the events of a story in the order they occurred is - 

A. plot

B. climax

C. chronological order

C. chronological order

500

How the character looks and what they say, do, think and feel -

A. narrator traits

B. physical traits

C. character traits

C. character traits

Nonfiction

100

Specific information that supports or relates to the main idea-

A. causes

B. inferences

C. details

C. details

200

Explanation or description of a picture located near or under the picture- 

A. chart

B. diagram

C. caption

C. caption

300

How we determine that people, places, things, or ideas in a text are different-

A. compare

B. contrast

C. cause

B. contrast

400

Pictures taken with a camera-

A. photographs

B. illustrations

C. diagrams

A. photographs

500

What happens or the result of something-

A. contrast

B. cause

C. effect

C. effect

Poetry

100

A group of lines in a poem that looks like a paragraph-

A. free verse

B. imagery

C. stanza

C. stanza

200

Words that sound the same, often the last word in each line-

A. stanza

B. rhyme

C. imagery

B. rhyme

300

Details within a poem that describe what is seen, heard, felt, smelled, or tasted-

A. sensory details

B. story details

C. poem details

A. sensory details

400

This type of poetry tells a story-

A. stanza

B. narrative

C. free verse

B. narrative

500

A poem that does not rhyme-

A. narrative

B. free rhyme

C. free verse

C. free verse

Fiction 2

100

When the main character is the narrator-

A. 1st person point of view

B. 3rd person of view

C. main character

A. 1st person point of view

200

When someone who is not a character is telling the story-

A. 3rd person point of view

B. 1st person point of view

C. narrator point of view

A. 3rd person point of view

300

This is made up of the problem, important events, and resolution-

A. climax

B. main idea

C. plot

C. plot

400

The message or lesson the author wants you to take away from the story-

A. solution

B. resolution

C. theme

C. theme

500

Using the author's clues to determine what will happen next-

A. prediction

B. problem

C. effect

A. prediction

Nonfiction 2

100

The reason why something happens-

A. cause

B. effect

C. contrast

A. cause

200

Slanting new or important words so they stand out-

A. illustration

B. bold print

C. italics

C. italics

300

What the text is mostly about-

A. main idea

B. inference

C. text evidence

A. main idea

400

A story about someone's life written by someone else-

A. narrative

B. autobiography

C. biography

C. biography

500

A story of someone's life written by that person-

A. autobiography

B. biography

C. narrative

A. autobiography