Key ELA Testing Terms

Key ELA Testing Terms

Multiple Choice

The character is

• where and when the story takes place

• a person or thing in a work of literature

• the person who tells the story

• the events that happen in a story

Multiple Choice

The setting is

• a person or thing in a work of literature

• where and when a story takes place

• the events that happen in a story

• what the story is mostly about.

Multiple Choice

The plot is

• a person or thing in a work of literature

• when and where a story takes place

• the events that happen in a story

• the perspective the story is told

Multiple Choice

What is point of view?

• How the characters behave toward each other.

• When and where the story takes place.

• What happens in the beginning, middle, and end of the story

• The perspective from with the story is told.

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the story?

• The lesson or message of the story.

• What the story is mostly about.

Multiple Choice

What are literary texts?

• stories, dramas or poems

• biographies, technical or flyers

Multiple Choice

What is a quote?

• your opinion and reason

• repeating what the text says.

Multiple Choice

What is an inference?

• to come to a thought or guess about what the text says

• to give the main idea or summary of a story

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What is the theme of a story?

• to give the main events of a story in the order they happen

• it is the lesson or message of the story.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean for characters interact?

• How characters behave toward each other.

• How characters compare and contrast.