Final Exam Review 2022-2023: Part 1

Match the following

• where and when a story takes place

• characters

• the message or lesson that an author is trying to portray

• plot

• the action in a story: include the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• theme

• the people, animals, and sometimes objects in a story

• setting

• the problem in a story

• conflict

EJ set up his lemonade stand on the corner of the road. He was doing really well, and everyone loved the lemonade. All of a sudden a dark cloud came over the block and it started to lightning and thunder.

This is an Character vs. ​ (a)  

• Nature
• Character
• Society
• Self
• Technology

The next week his best friend, Nate, decided to set up an iced tea stand across the street from him. This took away almost half of EJ’s customers.

This is an Character vs. ​ ​ (a)  

• Character
• Nature
• Society
• Self
• Technology

After a few weeks, a police officer came by the street. He told the two boys that they had to close down their stands because the law said they needed to have a permit in order to make money selling something.

This is an Character vs. ​ ​​ (a)  

• Society
• Nature
• Self
• Technology
• Character

A little boy came running around the bend at full speed. He crashed into the lemonade stand making everything spill. EJ shouted at him to come back and help, but the boy laughed and continued to run. 

This is an Character vs. ​ (a)   ​

• Character
• Nature
• Self
• Technology
• Society

EJ’s mom needed some help inside getting the house ready for a party they were going to have. She told him not to worry about helping and to focus on his stand. He wanted to help her, but he also didn’t want to leave the stand. He couldn’t decide what to do.

This is an Character vs. ​ (a)   ​

• Self
• Nature
• Technology
• Society
• Character

He was running out of cups, and there was a line around the block. EJ picked up his phone to call his mom to ask her to bring him some new cups. The phone decided at that moment to

This is an Character vs. ​ (a)   ​

• Technology
• Nature
• Society
• Character
• Self

Nate’s iced tea stand was taking business away from EJ’s lemonade stand. EJ was really upset about it, and wanted to ask him to move his stand a few blocks over. He knew that Nate was saving for a new bike and that if he moved he wouldn’t really make as much money.  EJ he didn’t want to make his friend feel bad, but he really wanted to make more money.

This is an Character vs. ​ (a)   ​

• Self
• Nature
• Society
• Character
• Technology

Match the following

• words that are the sound that they make

• personification

• giving human traits to a nonhuman object

• simile

• 2 or more words that contain the same beginning sound

• metaphor

• compares two things without using like or as

• onomatopoeia

• compares two things using like or as

• alliteration

My hair is as long as the Nile River.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia