ELA End of Year Assessment

MOOD/TONE: Which is the author's attitude toward a subject?

• Tone

• Mood

MOOD/TONE: "Moonlight sparkled on

the crystalline grains of the desert sand.

The distant dunes

stood in stark relief against the stars.

The silence of the night

was oddly deafening.

Manu was used to the

symphony of city noises

that never seemed to cease.

Now he longed for the familiar sound

of a car driving by

or the comfort of a human voice."

What is the MOOD of this poem?

• Grave

• Joyous

• Lonely

• Busy

POETRY: How many lines are in this poem?

• 1

• 9

• 4

• 7

POETRY: How many stanzas are in this poem?

• 3

• 1

• 5

• 12

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: What is a metaphor?

• The written form of a sound word

• Giving an object a person quality

• A comparison of two different things WITHOUT like or as

• A direct comparison using like or as

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: What is personification?

• The written form of a sound word

• Giving an object a person quality

• A comparison of two different things WITHOUT like or as

• A direct comparison using like or as

AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: What is the purpose of a book of jokes about being in the fourth grade?

• Instruct

• Entertain

• Persusade

• Inform

AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Eric's mother told him that he had to take out the trash. He put on his coat and mittens and flipped on the porch light and headed out to put the trash bags at the curb.

What information can be INFERRED from the passage?

• It is winter

• Eric's mom is mean

• Eric's mom told him he had to take out the trash

• Eric put the trash bags at the curb

THEME: Which aspect of the plot best contributes to the theme of the story?

Barry liked playing board games, but he hated losing. He hated losing so much that he would do whatever it took to win, even bending or breaking the rules. He'd steal money from the bank and hide it under the couch cushions. He'd skip spaces while he was moving around the board. He'd shortchange others money that they were owed and argue with them about it. Barry's techniques were effective. He did win most of the games that he played, but the people whom he played with were his friends and family, and it didn't take too long until they caught on to Barry's tricks. They tried to tell Barry to stop cheating. They said that the game wasn't any fun when he cheated, but he didn't listen. He continued with his treacherous style of gameplay, until nobody would play with him anymore. Barry may have won a lot of games, but at what cost?

• Barry would cheat his way into winning.

• Nobody wanted to play with Barry.

• His friends and family told him to stop cheating.

TEXT STRUCTURE: Which text structure would the following text fall under?

A text informing about the insects' characteristics.

• description

• problem and solution

• compare and contrast

• cause and effect