SOL Review ELA

• thesaurus

• dictionary

• index

• glossary

• running

• speed

• award

• bragging

Hello World

• colorful

• messy

• new

• clean

• spotless

In order to infer something that is not directly stated in a text you must...

• Think about the main idea

• Use clues and details from the text

• Use personal experiences and background knowledge

• Figure out the theme of the text

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using as, like, or than

• An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• Words that sound like their meaning

• A comparison between two things not using like or as

What is the following statement an example of?
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly

• Simile

• Metaphor

The thunder roared and the lightning cracked during the storm.
What type of figurative language is this?

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

Which best describes a summary?

• a really long detailed piece of writing

• the entire text told in your own words

• a dumb thing that teachers make you write

• the main ideas and important details of a text

Summaries help me...

• understand what I'm reading

• write about what I read

• include the key points of a text

• all of the above

What is the setting of the passage below? One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion.

• winter in a train station of a busy city

• a hospital in the future

• a summer morning in a castle

• a grocery store in the 1980s