Milestones Prep

Passages that are stories, dramas, or poems are also known as _________________.

• literary texts

• themes

• plots

• objective summaries

What is an inference?

• to develop the character over the course of a passage

• to distinguish between literal and figurative meanings of words and phrases

• to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text

• to exaggerate beyond belief

What is a theme?

• the lesson or message

• the most important point or idea that the author is making in the passage

• the specific order of a series of events that form a story

• where and when the story takes place

What is a plot?

• the most important point the author is making in a passage

• the conflict or problem of a story

• the way an author develops a character

• the specific order of a series of events that form a story

The ___________ is the solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict.

• resolution

• conflict

• inference

• theme

A _____________ is a comparison using like or as.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

_______________ is exaggeration beyond belief.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Which type of figurative language is used in the following sentence:

The trees sighed in the afternoon breeze.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Which type of figurative language is used in the following sentence:

She is as pretty as a picture.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Which type of figurative language is used in the following sentence:

The beautiful butterfly blew by the bay.

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

• metaphor