State Test Prep

conclusion paragraph

• the beginning

• the middle

• the end

relevant source

• pertains to what you're writing about

• credible

• accurate

• relevant

source

• the events in a story

• when and where a story takes place

• where something or someone came from

personification

• a sound word

• uses the word "like" to compare two things

• compares two unlike things

• making something human or have human like qualities

Choose the answers with personification.

• He cried a waterfall for three hours.

• Lightning danced across the sky.

• Her smile was like the sun.

• My alarm clock screams at me every morning.

simile

• compares two different things using the words, "like" or "as"

• a sound word

• gives human like qualities to a nonhuman thing

Select the similes

• Her teeth were white as snow.

• She heard the crash and bang and came running.

• The dog's bark was like a fire alarm, loud and annoying.

• The door complained as she opened it.

onomatopoeia

• gives human qualities to a non human thing

• compares two unlike things using the word "like" or "as"

• a sound word, sounds like what it is

• compares two unlike things

select the onomatopoeias

• pow

• bang

• crash

• zap

metaphor

• compares two unlike things using the words, "like" and "as"

• a sound word, sounds like what it is

• compares two unlike things

• gives human qualities to non human things