What is the struggle between opposing forces in literature?
A conflict can be internal such as a character's decision-making, external such as between characters or it could be against something else such as nature.
100
3-5 Synonyms for "Reading Selection"
What is a narrative, excerpt, passage, article, selection, story, ... or possibly a folk tale, fable, tall tale, autobiography, etc.?
100
Metaphor
What is a comparison that suggests two things are the same?
Ex: All the world's a stage.
100
Verb
What is a word or words that express an action... or the state of being?
200
Plot
What is the action or sequence of events in a story?
200
Symbolism
What is it when one thing represents something else?
Ex: When a dark and stormy night represents danger.
200
Draft
What is the initial rough outline listing the main details of most written work?
200
Simile
What is a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as?
Ex: "Success is like a pie, there are different layers" compares success to a pie.
200
Noun
What is a word that names a person, place, thing or idea?
300
Foreshadowing
What is the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story?
Ex: When Elijah's alarm clock woke him at 7 AM, he had no idea that today would be the most incredibly great day of his life.
300
Imagery
What is descriptive language, or what are words and phrases that create a vivid sensory experience appealing to one or more of the 5 senses?
Ex: The lake was left shivering by the touch of morning wind.
300
MCAS is the abbreviation for these words.
What is the shorter name for Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System?
300
Stanza
What is the verse of a poem, a or a grouping of lines in a poem?
300
Adjective
What is a word that modifies/describes a somebody or something?
400
Moral
What is a lesson taught such as in fables?
Ex: Slow and steady wins the race is the moral of Aesop's Fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare."
400
Point of View
What is the perspective from which a story is told?
Ex: 1st Person uses the pronouns I, me, my or we, us, ours. An autobiography is written in first person.
3rd Person might be told by a narrator who refers to characters by name or pronoun (as he, her, it or them).
400
Evidence
What are facts, figures, details, quotations or other sources of information to support a claim or prove an analysis?
400
Mood
What is the atmosphere or feeling created in the reader by a literary work?
400
Adverb
What is a word that tells how, when, where, why, how often or how much? (Time, place, manner or degree).
Ex: Adverbs can (but don't always) end in "-ly."
Often, never, upstairs, here, quietly, literally.
500
Examples of Literary Genre
What are poetry, tall tales, fables, drama, and nonfiction?
500
Alliteration
What is the repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence?
Ex: Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August.
500
4th & 7th, (36 x 1) + (4 x 4) + (1 x 20) = 72.
5th & 6th, (36 x 1) + (4 x 4) = 52.
How many different types of questions and points will be on the MCAS 4th-7th Grade?
36 Multiple Choice (1 point each), 4 Open response (4 points each), and FOR 4th & 7th ONLY: 1 Composition which will likely be a personal composition or persuasive essay (20 points) for a total of 72 points.
500
Rhythm
What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry?
What do poets use to bring out the musical quality of language, to emphasize ideas, to create mood, to unify a work and/or to heighten the reader's emotional response?