Testing Terms and Vocab Review

Testing Terms and Vocab Review

By Danielle Caron

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences contrasts two ideas?

• Groundhogs have been plentiful in Pennsylvania since colonial times, but coyotes only began to arrive around 1930.
• Groundhogs came to Pennsylvania first; many years later, coyotes arrived.
• There are many types of wildlife in Pennsylvania, for example, coyotes and groundhogs.
• Coyotes have lived in Pennsylvania since around the 1930s; also, groundhogs live in the statee

Multiple Choice

Erin's car had a flat tire, so she called a tow truck.
What is the cause?

• Erin's car had a flat tire
• so she called a tow truck

Multiple Choice

We turned up the heat since it was getting cold.
We turned up the heat is the...

• cause
• effect

Multiple Choice

Stacey had a lot of fun riding her bike one sunny afternoon.  She was just about home when she hit a patch of loose gravel.  Stacey skidded and then tipped over on her bike, scraping her knee. After cleaning the scrape, Stacey put a bandage on her knee.
What is the problem?

• She hit a patch of loose gravel.
• She had a lot of fun.
• She scraped her knee.

Multiple Choice

I love dogs very much. I keep some dogs in my house. They are Casper, Midas, Brownie and Dottie. Casper is a dachshund. He’s short with long body and four strong legs. Brownie is a collie. She has long and thick fur. What color is her fur? Brown, of course that’s why I call her Brownie. Dottie is a Dalmatian. She has a slim body and four long legs. She has thin fur and dots all over her body. The last is Midas. He is a bulldog. He has a large head, a short neck and thick short legs. He’s very strong. I always take care of my dogs every day.

What kind of text is the text above?

• Report

• Recount

• Descriptive

• Narrative

Multiple Choice

Which of the following does NOT contain key words in Chronological Text Structure?

• First...
• In the year 1953...
• Besides...
• Finally...

Multiple Choice

When comparing and contrasting, you should ________.

• Create a venn diagram with similarities in the overlapping sections of a Venn Diagram and differences in the outer sections

• write similarities in the arrows of a flow chart

• skip pre-writing and begin writing the essay right away

Multiple Choice

Which of the following words or phrases can be used to show a comparison?

• On the other hand

• Similarly

• In contrast

• While

Multiple Choice

Which of the following words or phrases could be used when contrasting?

• Similarly

• In Conclusion

• On the other hand

• Nonetheless

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of THEME?

• Cereal is the healthiest food you can eat.
• How much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
• Life is short; make the most of it.

Multiple Choice

One way you could figure out the theme is to...

• Skim through the story
• Just read the beginning of the story
• Think about what the character has learned

Multiple Choice

A theme ...

• always shows the setting

• is always stated directly in the text

• cannot be just one word

Multiple Choice

Do you ever wonder what makes gum so chewy? Gum has been around for about 3,000 years. Until the 1940’s, gum was made out of chicle, a type of tree sap. Flavorings were added during the 1860’s to make gum taste better. Now, gum makers use a soft, chewy, and edible type of rubber-like substance to make gum. 

What is the main idea of this passage?

•  The different flavors of gum
• Types of tree sap
• What gum is made of

Multiple Choice

Choose the two words that best complete the sentence. During the exposition, it is important to introduce the ________ and the ________.

• characters, setting 
• characters, falling action 
• conflict, resolution

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict of a story?

• the problem faced by the main character
• a bad hair day
• the ending of the story

Multiple Choice

The character that causes trouble for the main character is the.....

• protagonist
• antagonist

Multiple Choice

Which of these sentences includes the best example of foreshadowing?

• When Penny left the house, she didn't know that was the last time she would ever see her family.

• After years of hard work, Trevon was proud to say he'd been accepted to Harvard.

• Greg's favorite food was lasagna; he would eat it every day if he could!

Multiple Choice

What word (s) is an example of dialect in this sentence?

You okay, lad? You look tuckered out!

• you okay

• lad, tuckered

• you look

Multiple Choice

What word (s) is an example of dialect in this sentence?

I was 'bout to run off!

• I was

• run off

• 'bout

• to run

Multiple Choice

An EXCERPT is a(n) _____. 

• article in a newspaper or magazine
• selection from a text
• rough draft

Multiple Choice

A pilot with a fear of heights

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

Multiple Choice

Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

Multiple Choice

In Toy Story, human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move, but the audience is.

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

Multiple Choice

This word means to look deeply into something and figure out what it really means; to break something down into its parts and closely inspect

each of the elements

• compare

• analyze

• conclude

Multiple Choice

make an educated guess based on your own prior knowledge and textual evidence

• trace

• formulate

• infer