Unit 3 Quick Review

What is the purpose of the simile below?

The woman's face was as pretty as a picture and as smooth as a one dollar bill.

• Create a mental image of the woman's face

• Help the reader to imagine what the woman's personality would be like

• Understand why the woman was beautiful

• Recognize the smooth texture of a one dollar bill

The purpose of a folktale is to retell the story so it is not forgotten.

• True

• False

When you see a question about theme or the message of the story, if the answer choice has something __________ to the story, you need to get rid of it!

The best summary of a passage will include the most important events from the beginning, the middle, and the end of the story and IN THAT ORDER.

• True

• False

On message and theme questions, after you have gotten rid of answer choices that are specific to the passage, you need to pick the answer based on what the story was mainly about and the lesson that was learned.

• True

• False

You do not have to hashtag the paragraphs in the stories.

• True

• False

The question --

"Which setting has the greatest impact on the plot?" wants to know which of the settings the story could not go on without.

• True

• False

The question --

"The main conflict of the story was solved when?" wants to know what the resolution of the story was.

• True

• False

The pronouns "he, she, them, they, him" outside of quotation marks, are first-person pronouns.

• True

• False

In questions that ask you to find the meaning of a word, you do not have to look up that word in the dictionary.

• True

• False