ELA Test Prep

When and where a story takes place.

• timeline

• idiom

• setting

• origin

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The people, animals, or objects that speak in the story.

• characters

• point of view

• antagonist

• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The problem in the story.

• central idea

• summary

• genre

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story.

• solution

• theme

• central idea

• problem

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The message, lesson or moral of a story.

• summary

• theme

• plot

• conclusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A brief statement of the main events of a story.

• summary

• central idea

• introduction

• chronological

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Writing that expresses the author's opinion and aims to convince the reader to feel the same

• point of view

• narrative

• informative

• persuasive

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

The perspective a story is told from:

• origin

• narrator

• point of view

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

uses pronouns I, me and my. The story is about the person telling the story.

• third person point of view

• second person point of view

• biography

• first person point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

the use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in a plot

• infer

• imply

• convey

• foreshadow

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3