HMH Unit 1: Discover Your Voice
Authored by Mishannda Hissam
English
6th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz covers essential English Language Arts terminology and concepts, specifically focusing on literary analysis, figurative language, and reading comprehension skills appropriate for 6th grade students. The questions assess students' understanding of fundamental literary elements including theme, tone, mood, and main idea, as well as poetry structure with terms like stanza and quatrain. Students need solid foundational knowledge of author's purpose and the ability to distinguish between the three main purposes: to inform, persuade, and entertain. The quiz also requires mastery of connotation versus denotation, understanding how words carry both dictionary meanings and emotional associations. Additionally, students must demonstrate comprehension of figurative language devices, particularly similes, metaphors, and personification, along with the ability to identify these devices in sample sentences. The complexity level aligns perfectly with middle school expectations, requiring students to move beyond basic recall to apply literary concepts in context. Created by Mishannda Hissam, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 6. This comprehensive vocabulary and concept quiz serves as an excellent tool for introducing or reinforcing core literary analysis skills that form the foundation for more advanced reading comprehension. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a diagnostic assessment at the beginning of a unit to gauge student readiness, use it as guided practice during instruction, or assign it as homework to reinforce classroom learning. The quiz format makes it particularly effective for formative assessment, allowing teachers to quickly identify which literary terms and concepts need additional instruction or review. The variety of question types, from straight definitions to application examples, supports differentiated learning and helps students build confidence with academic vocabulary. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4 for determining word meanings and analyzing word choice impact, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2 for identifying themes and main ideas, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.5 for understanding figurative language and word relationships.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What the story is really about on a deeper level
TONE
THEME
MOOD
MAIN IDEA
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The feeling that author creates within the reader through their writing
TONE
THEME
MOOD
MAIN IDEA
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The author’s attitude or feeling toward the subject of their writing
TONE
THEME
MOOD
MAIN IDEA
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A stanza of 4 lines
STANZA
QUATRAIN
COUPLET
CHOO-CHOO
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.7.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A group of lines within a poem
STANZA
PARAGRAPH
INDENT
EXCERPT
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A literary work used to express feelings and ideas usually in a obvious style
FREE WRITE
POETRY
ESSAY
RACES
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Taking notes; highlighting, underlining, circling, etc.
CONNOTATION
DENOTATION
ANNOTATION
DECLARATION
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
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