ELA FAST REVIEW

Fiction

100

The character that goes against the protagonist

Antagonist

200

This is the problem in the plot development

Conflict

300

This tells you the setting and the main characters are introduced at the beginning of the story

Exposition

400

This is the most exciting part of the story, where there is a change in the main character

Climax

500

This is the final part of the story-the ending of the story

Resolution

Figurative Language

100

What type of figure of speech is the following sentence?

"Oh no... AH-CHOO! Sniffle, I need a tissue please."

Onomatopoeia

200

What figure of speech is the following sentence?

"The salsa was so hot, my tongue began to melt."

Hyperbole

300

What figure of speech is the following sentence? 

"My computer screamed before it died a brutal death."

Personification 

400

What figure of speech is the following sentence? 

"My niece Laura is a ray of sunshine."

Metaphor

500

What figure of speech is the following sentence? 

"Could you please put a sock in it? I'm trying to focus.

Idiom

Literary Terms

100

This is the moral of the story

Theme

200

This is the part of the story where it is wrapping up the consequences of the climax.

Falling Action

300

This is the paragraph in a poem. 

Stanza

400

What are the four types of conflcit

Man vs Man

Man vs Nature

Man vs Society

Man vs himself

500

The three different types of 3rd‑person point of view are:  (Name two to pass, name all three to gain an extra 100 points)

Third‑Person Limited

• The narrator tells the story from the perspective of one character.
• The reader only knows that character’s thoughts and feelings
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• Third‑Person Omniscient
  • The narrator knows everything about all characters.
  • The reader can see multiple characters’ thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
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  • Third‑Person Objective
    • The narrator tells the story without thoughts or feelings.
    • The reader only sees actions and dialogue, like a camera.

ELA Reading Skills

100

A prefix that means life

Bio

200

A prefix that means write

graph

300

Using context clues and word parts to help you, what part of speech is the following word: ominous. How do you know?

The blackened sky appeared ominous, and we all ran inside for cover

Ominous is an adjective. Ominous is describing the sky, a noun, which makes this describing word an adjective.

400

I picked up a woozle and turned it around. It was slippery, wiggly, and goopidy goopy. What part of speech is a "woozle"? How do you know?

Woozle is a nonsense word used as a noun. Nouns have an article (a, an, the) before it and the sentence states that it can be touched and manipulated. For this reason, I know it is a noun. 

500

In order to find the central idea of the passage, you must first look here. (Name all three to pass, four to gain an extra 100 points)

Topic sentence (first sentence), last sentence, and title. *BONUS:___________________________

Non Fiction

100

These words have opposite meaning 

Antonym

200

Give 5 examples of text features

Title, heading, annotations, footnote, glossary, appendix, caption, photograph, table of content, chart, graph, illustration

300

What is the author's purpose for writing a text? (Three)

PIE-Persuade-Inform, Entertain

400

What are the three rhetorical appeals and what is the purpose of each one?

Ethos appeals to credibility and trust.

Pathos appeals to emotion

Logos appeals to logic and reason.

500

There are five types of text structure, name them. 

Problem and Solution

Chronological or Sequence

Compare and Contrast

Description

Cause and Effect