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What is the setting?
A. time and place
B. when and where
C. what the story is mainly about
D. A and B are correct
D. A and B are correct
What is it called when you see ABBA or AABB or ABAB in poetry?
A. rhythm
B. rhyme scheme
C. the stanza structure
D. these are made up acronyms and this is a trick question
B. rhyme scheme
"He was as quiet as a mouse" is an example of a ___.
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. hyperbole
D. onomatopoeia
A. simile
What is THEME, when asked about a story, or novel?
A. the moral, message, or lesson the author is trying to teach the reader
B. the sequence of events that take place in a story
C. what an informational text is mainly about
D. A recurring or repeated concept throughout the course of a story
A. the moral, message, or lesson the author is trying to teach the reader
What type of author's purpose is it when an author tries to get you to believe the same way they do about a topic?
A. to inform
B. to explain
C. to persuade
D. to entertain
C. to persuade
What is the main idea/central idea?
A. the summary of a story
B. what the author wants the reader to do
C. what the text is mostly about
D. the turning point in a story
C. what the text is mostly about
Why do you use quotation marks " " around words when we are citing evidence directly from a text?
A. to show that a character is speaking
B. to prove it is a factual statement
C. to indicate that is someone's personal opinion or thoughts
D. to show that these are not your words but words the author of the text wrote
D. to show that these are not your words but words the author of the text wrote
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
A. idiom
B. allusion
C. imagery
D. personification
D. Personification
DAILY DOUBLE!
Read the following sentence:
He walked to the store and buy some milk.
Do the verb tenses of "walked" and "buy" agree or disagree and why? If incorrect, what should it be?
The verb tenses don't agree - walked is past tense and buy is present tense.
He walked to the store and bought some milk.
TRIPLE TRIVIA!
Using context clues, what does the word vivacious mean in the sentence below?
Even though the crowd didn't cheer, Lily remained vivacious.
cheerful, animated, high-spirited, upbeat
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called what?
A. index
B. glossary
C. dictionary
D. text features
B. glossary
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake?
A. sequence
B. cause/effect
C. problem/solution
D. compare/contrast
A. sequence
What do we call the part of the plot where the problem is solved and the story comes to an end?
A. climax
B. exposition
C. resolution
D. falling action
C. resolution
What figurative language is expressed in the following sentence:
The alarm buzzed through the hallways to signal the end of the day.
A. idiom
B. metaphor
C. symbolism
D. onomatopoeia
D. onomatopoeia
What is the PLOT of a story/novel?
A. the sequence of events
B. the main conflict or driving force of a story
C. the turning point in a story that leads to the tying up of the loose ends
D. a scheme that the main character is planning and/or carrying through
A. the sequence of events
What is a character in a story/novel?
A. the person or animal in a story
B. the main conflict or problem in a story
C. the author of a text
D. the traits/qualities of a person in a story
A. the person or animal in a story
Usually the conflict surrounds them in the story.
What is the first-person point of view?
A. when the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
B. when the story is told from the perspective of the reader, using words like "you" or "your
C. when the narrator exists outside the events of the story and refers to characters as "he", "she", or "they"
D. the perspectives or opinions of the main character in a story
A. when the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
DAILY DOUBLE!
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
to describe how things are alike and how they are different
What are the paragraphs in a poem called?
A. stanzas
B. sections
C. paragraphs
D. any of the above are acceptable
A. stanzas
A suffix is a word added to the end of a root word to change the meaning of the root word. Which option below includes a list of examples? Identify the suffix in each.
A. reader, wonderful, persuasion, writing, studied
B. reread, preview, undo, decode, misunderstand
C. read, view, persuade, write, inform
D. light, bright, fright, right, delight
A. reader, wonderful, persuasion, writing, studied
Define the figurative language term "alliteration" and provide and example.
A. the rhyme scheme in a poem
B. when a word or phrase is repeated
C. a connection to another story or scenario
D. the repetition of the initial consonant sound in a series of words
D. the repetition of the initial consonant sound in a series of words
Examples may vary (i.e. Lucy Lu loves lasagna and linguini.).
A picture with labels is called a _____.
A. image
B. caption
C. graphic
D. diagram
D. diagram
Which type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"She is a tornado when she gets angry!"
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. alliteration
D. hyperbole
What is an adjective? Provide an example.
A. a person, place, or thing (the "dog")
B. a word that describes a noun ("red" rose)
C. a word that describes an action (she "ran")
D. a word used to replace a noun ("he" yelled)
B. a word that describes a noun ("red" rose)
A prefix is a word added to the beginning of a root word that changes the meaning of the root word. Which option below includes a list of examples? Identify the prefix in each.
A. boom, bang, creak, roar, woof
B. preview, exclaim, impolite, reread, illegible
C. Sally saw some sea shells by the sea shore
D. reading, writer, drawing, classmate, judgement
B. preview, exclaim, impolite, reread, illegible