5th Grade Outcome 4-PreTest

What is theme in a story?

• The main idea
• The solution to the story
• The lesson of the story
• The author's purpose

Which of the following is an example of THEME?

• Carry your laptops with two hands at all times.
• Cereal is the healthiest food you can eat.
• You can severely break your leg while crossing the street.
• Life is short; make the most of it.

Identify possible ways an author presents theme in a literary work.

• Through feelings of the main character
• Through conversations of the characters
• Actions and events in the story
• All of the above

A well written theme statement includes character's names and the author.

• TRUE
• FALSE

Jessica loved her dad, but she wondered why she was so organized when he was so haphazard.  A person who is haphazard is- 

• lost
• lovable 
• worried
• disorganized

Tonya was relaxing with a magazine when her father walked in, looking perturbed and sounding annoyed, too. What words give you clues to the meaning of perturbed?

• can you help me
• her father walked in 
• sounding annoyed, too
• relaxing with a magazine

What type of figurative language is a comparison between two unlike things using LIKE or AS?

• simile
• metaphor
• alliteration
• hyperbole

What type of figurative language compares two unlike objects but does NOT use like or as?  This type of fig. lang states that one thing IS something else.

• simile
• metaphor
• analogy
• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language has many words that begin with the same sound?
EX:  Seven silly swans swam silently.

• onomatopeia
• analogy
• alliteration
• simile

What type of figurative language gives nonhuman objects human characteristics or mannerisms?
EX:  The curtains danced in the breeze.

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• personification