6th Honors ELA Midterm

Language that cannot be taken literally

• Speeches

• Monologues

• Dialect

• Figurative Language

When Authors give hints about what might happen later in the story

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• falling action

• irony

When two things are compared by saying that one thing is the other thing

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

Which is an example of an onomatopoeia?

• buzz

• paint

• fluffly

• harangue

When human characteristics are given to non-humans.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• irony

• personification

When and where a story takes place.

• characterization

• plot overview

• setting

• point of view

Which is an example of a metaphor?

• That man is a pig!

• Life is like a box of chocolates.

• She is on cloud nine today!

• The leaves danced in the wind.

Which is an example of a simile?

• That man is a pig!

• Life is like a box of chocolates.

• She is on cloud nine today!

• The leaves danced in the wind.

Which is an example of personification?

• That man is a pig!

• Life is like a box of chocolates.

• She is on cloud nine today!

• The leaves danced in the wind.

What is theme?

• What a story is about

• The lesson of the story

• How the characters behave

• Why things happen in a story