Q1 CSA Review

Poetry Elements

100

Comparing two unlike things while using "like or as"

What is a SIMILE?

200

Comparing two unlike things WITHOUT using "like or as"

What is a METAPHOR?

300

Giving human characteristics to non human things

What is PERSONIFICATION?

400

The repetition of consonant sounds

What is ALLITERATION?

500

Words that describe sound

What is ONOMATOPOEIA?

Story Elements

100

The part of the story where things are starting to calm down, and the story starts to move towards the conclusion.

What is the FALLING ACTION?

200

The most exciting part of a story

What is the CLIMAX?

300

The part of the story where all of the problems are solved.

What is the RESOLUTION?

400

The part of the story that is LEADING UP TO the most exciting part

What is the RISING ACTION?

500

The part of the story at the beginning that gives background information.

What is EXPOSITION?

Non-Fiction

100

When the author write about themselves

What is an AUTOBIOGRAPHY?

200

A type of text structure that uses an "if/then" statement. For example "If it rains heavily, then it will flood".

What is CAUSE & EFFECT?

300

When an author write a life story about someone else

What is a "BIOGRAPHY"?

400

The reason why an author writes a story

What is THE AUTHOR'S PURPOSE?

500

The author's purpose can be one of these three things

What is "To Persuade, To Inform, or To Entertain".

Roots & Affixes

100

This suffix means "the study of"

What is -OLOGY?

200

This prefix means "life"

What is "BIO-"?

300

This prefix means "rocks" or "earth"

What is "GEO-"?

400

This goes at the beginning of a root word, and changes its meaning

What is a PREFIX?

500

This goes at the end of a root word, and changes its meaning

What is a SUFFIX?

Main Idea, Inferencing, & Summarizing

100

What can you infer the word "repugnant" means by this sentence:
She looked at the food with repugnance; how anyone could eat snail was beyond her. Yuck!

A. Disgust

B. Happiness

C. Anger

D. Sadness

A. Disgust

200

This is the central point of a story

What is a MAIN IDEA?

300

This is when you tell ONLY the most important parts of a story (usually when you answer the 5 Ws: Who, What, When, Where, and Why)

What is SUMMARIZING?

400

TRUE OR FALSE: Paraphrasing and Summarizing are the same thing

FALSE (Summarizing is retelling the important parts, Paraphrasing is putting something into your own words)

500

You need BOTH of these things in order to make an inference.

What is TEXTUAL EVIDENCE AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION?