FSA ELA

An __________ states an author’s position about a topic and tries to get readers to agree with it.

• opinion

• argument

• fact

• mood

Specific categories of literature such as poetry, drama, fantasy, or historical fiction are called ____________.

• genres

• books

• types

• language arts

Restating the main idea and most important details in your own words free of opinion and judgement is called a ______________.

• subjective summary

• anecdote

• objective summary

• analysis

What is point of view?

• observation

• the character's feelings

• the narrator's opinion

• The "voice" of a work; the narrator's perspective.

Grouped lines in a poem is called a...

• stanza

• paragraph

• lines

• rhyme scheme

Your explanation is as clear as mud," is an example of a...

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• pun

How the author creates the passage and puts it together (examples: description, cause and effect, sequencing, etc.,)

• prose

• text structures

• poem

• expository

the overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea or lesson in a literary text and often deals with abstract questions, beliefs, or truths

• mood

• theme

• tone

• opinion

He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets, and that in the morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow.
What does the word pulverized mean in the text above?

• demolished

• extinguished

• burnt

• blown away

Look at the list of words below. Which of them carries the most positive connotation?
pretty
beautiful
stunning
attractive

• pretty

• beautiful

• stunning

• attractive