Testing Terms Week 2

Select the three main types of author's purpose

• main idea

• inform

• summarize

• entertain

• persuade

Select the ALL synonyms matched below

• hair-hare

• house-home

• hot-cold

• left-right

• pretty-beautiful

To inform means to...

• give your opinions about something

• to make the reader enjoy what they are reading

• to try to get the reader to believe or do something

• to teach or give information to the reader

An antonym means

• same sound and meaning different spelling

• words with opposite meanings

• word that means the same as another word

Context clues are...

• Clues in a text that help readers figure out a word nearby

• clues that tell someones name

• the solution in a story

• the problem in a story

Which of the following would be the conflict in the Three Little Pigs?

• The conflict is that the pigs are hungry.

• The conflict is that the pigs are making their houses out of different materials.

• The conflict is that the wolf is trying to blow the houses down and eat the pigs.

• The conflict is that the third pig makes a strong house that the wolf cannot blow down.

What is a resolution in a story?

• problem

• mystery

• conflict

• solution

The moral or lesson of a story is the...

• theme

• resolution

• conflict

• context clue

A conflict is a

• solution

• problem

• fight

• synonym

The author's purpose for writing a magazine article about Mississippi and its people would probably be...

• to persuade

• to entertain

• to inform