6th Grade ELA Terms Test Review

The most suspenseful or exciting part part of a story. Can also be considered the turning point of a story.

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Exposition

• Climax

Occurs at the end of a story where problems are usually worked out

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Occurs at the beginning of a story where characters and setting are typically introduced

• Falling Action

• Exposition

• Climax

• Resolution

This type of figurative language gives human traits to objects or animals

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Uses "like" or "as" to compare two things

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Uses extreme exaggeration for emphasis

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

Using multiple words in a sentence that have the same beginning sound

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

A word or phrase that imitates a sound

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

A comparison of two things without using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

The term for the lesson or moral of a story

• Summary

• Theme

• Setting

• Foreshadowing