NEW
Font size
WorksheetsState Test Study Guide Quiz
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 15hrs 30mins
What is the main idea?
What the text is mostly about.
Details that support your answer.
A good guess.
What the author wants you to feel.
How do you know that your main idea is correct?
It has several key details that prove your answer is right.
It will say it in the first paragraph.
It will say it in the last paragraph.
It will have a word that means the same thing.
When looking for the main idea, where should you NOT look for hints?
At the characters names.
In the title
In the first and last sentences
In the pictures
In the headings
What is the way an author organizes/builds his text to make it easier for the reader to understand?
Text structure
Main idea
Inference
Point of View
Which of the following describes the description text structure?
It uses details to describe a topic
It goes in time order using dates.
It will tell what happened and why it happened.
It will tell how things are similar and how they are different.
Which of the following describes the chronological text structure?
It tells things in the order that they happen.
It tells what happened and why it happened.
It tells what the problem is and how to solve it.
It gives plenty of description.
Which of the following describes the Compare and Contrast text structure?
It tells how things are similar and how they are different.
It tells things that happen in time order.
It tells why something happened and what happened.
It tells the solution to a problem.
Which of the following describes cause and effect text structure?
It tells why something happened and what happened.
It tells the time order than things happen in.
It gives similarities and differences.
It gives details and descriptions.
Which of the following describes problem and solution text structure?
It will give a problem and then the way to solve the problem.
It tells what happened and why it happened.
It tells similarities and differences.
It gives a lot of descriptions about the topic.
Point of view is ________?
The character or authors perspective of the story.
What the text is mostly about.
The way the author builds a text to make it easier to read.
A good guess made based off clues found in the text.
Someone with a positive point of view...?
Likes it or has a favorable opinion.
Does not like it or has a poor opinion.
Neither likes nor dislikes it.
Someone with a negative point of view....?
Does not like it or has a poor opinion.
Likes it or has a favorable opinion.
Neither likes or dislikes it.
A neutral point of view....?
The author neither likes nor dislikes it.
The author likes it or has a positive opinion.
The author does not like it or has a negative opinion.
The narrator IS a character in the story.
1st Person
2nd Person
3rd Person Limited
3rd Person Omniscient
The narrator is speaking directly to the reader.
1st Person
2nd Person
3rd Person Limited
3rd Person Omniscient
The narrator is NOT a character in the story and knows the thoughts and feeling of ONE character.
1st person
2nd person
3rd person limited
3rd person omniscient
Point of View that uses words like I, me, mine, we, and ours.
1st
2nd
3rd Omniscient
3rd Limited
Point of View that uses words like you and your.
1st
2nd
3rd Omniscient
3rd Limited
Point of View that uses words like he, she, they, and them.
1st
2nd
3rd
What does it mean to summarize a text?
To retell important parts of a story in your own words.
To retell important parts of a story using only text evidence.
To tell the message or theme that the author wanted the reader to learn.
To tell what the problem of a story is and the best way to solve it.
A summary must be in your own words
True
False
A FICTIONAL summary should include all of the following EXCEPT:
Characters
Setting
Main Idea
Problem
Solution
A NONFICTION summary should include all of the following EXCEPT...
Main idea
Key details
Characters
Recounting a story and summarizing a story are the same thing.
True
False
Context clues help you...
Find the meaning of unknown words
Help you determine the authors point of view
determine the main idea
when you are making a summary
When you are trying to find out if a context clue word is correct, you should NOT put it in the sentence.
True
False
This means to make a good guess based on clues in the text.
Infer
Theme
Structure
Point of view
What you already know is _________
Background knowledge
Key details
Main idea
Infer
Background knowledge can help you make an inference when reading a text.
True
False
Making an inference is the same as...
Drawing a conclusion
Solving a problem
Using figurative language
Text evidence
This is the moral, message, or lesson of the story.
Theme
Point of View
Main idea
Summary
Theme can also be referred to as central idea.
True
False
The theme should include the characters' names and the setting.
True
False
Which of the following questions would NOT help you find the theme or central idea?
What lesson did the character learn?
How did the characters grow or change?
Where and when does the story take place?
What could I learn from this that could help me in my life?
All of the following are examples of theme EXCEPT:
Slow and steady wins the race
Recycling reduces waste.
Money is not everything.
Honestly is the best policy.
When the author does not literally mean the words they use:
Theme
Central Message
Inference
Figurative Language
What is a simile?
When you compare two unlike things.
When you compare two things using LIKE or AS
A big exaggeration
Words that have a special meaning.
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two unlike things
Comparing two things using like or as.
Giving human characteristics to a non human thing.
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is personification?
Words that describe a sound
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words
A big exaggeration
Giving human characteristics to a non human thing.
What is alliteration?
Words that have a special meaning
The repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words
Words that describe a sound.
A big exaggeration
What is Onomatopoeia?
Words that have a special meaning
Words that describe a sound
Words that start with the same consonant sound
Words that give human characteristics to a non human thing.
What is an idiom?
Words that describe a sound.
Giving human characteristics to a non human thing.
A big exaggeration
A group of words with a special meaning.
What is a hyperbole?
Words that describe a sound
Words that have a special meaning
A big exaggeration
comparing two unlike things.
Firsthand means...
The person or artifact was really there
The person or artifact was told about by someone who was not really there.
Secondhand means...
The person or artifact was really there.
The person or artifact was told about by someone who was not really there.
Compare means
To tell what is different
To tell what is the same
Contrast means...
To tell what is different
To tell what is the same
Analyze means
To guess
To infer
To look at closely, or study
Determine means....
Guess
Study
Look closely
Decide
Predict means...
Guess
Read
Solution
Problem
The plot is...
The problem in the story
The solution in the story
The characters in the story
The important events in the story
The climax is of a story is...
All the important events
The big, action part of the story
The solution
The characters and the setting
A drama is...
A song
A story
A poem
A play
Clarify means...
To make clear or explain
to guess
to read
to study
Dialogue is...
The main idea
A clue in the story
What is being said
What is being done
Contribute means...
To take away from
To add to
To read closely
Literal means...
You say exactly what you mean
You do not mean exactly what you say
Figurative means...
You say exactly what you mean
You do not say exactly what you mean
