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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 6hrs 1mins
Floods can cause tremendous damage. They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind. It can take months to clean up after a flood.
What is the main idea?
Floods can cause a lot of damage.
Floods cause mudslides.
Floods damage houses and roads.
What is the main idea?
Which of the following is the definition of third-person omniscient narration?
a character in the story tells the story
an outside narrator tells the thoughts and feelings of one character at a time
the narrator speaks directly to you, the reader
an outside narrator tells the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story
When describing the setting of the story, an author uses vivid descriptions and adjective to help the reader picture the place in his mind. This is called -
imagery
connecting
predicting
figurative language
Mrs. Peace's eyes welled up with an ocean of feeling when all of her students passed the Reading SOL. What type of figurative language is in this sentence?
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
The bathroom was a hive as students gathered to hear the latest gossip. What type of figurative language is in this sentence?
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
personification
The kids caught a contagious cold. This is an example of-
alliteration
repetition
rhyme
onomatopoeia
If it starts raining and you go back to get an umbrella, this is what type of text structure?
cause and effect
process
problem / solution
enumeration
What type of poetry has 5 syllables, 7 syllables, then 5 syllables?
Haiku
Limerick
Black Out
Select ALL THE antonyms of the word SAD
happy
Pessimistic
Glad
Wistful
Cheerful
same beginning sound repeated (can be 2 or more)
alliteration
onomatopoeia
metaphor
hyperbole
introduces, characters, setting, and hints at conflict
exposition
setting
characterization
climax
is the story's TIME and place
exposition
setting
characterization
initiating event
the message in the story – friendship, never give up, responsibility, respect, acceptance courage
theme
inference
prediction
context clue
used to express an author’s attitude toward the subject. (serious, humorous, objective – they have no opinion, personal – their personal feeling or opinion)
theme
inference
prediction
tone
The author shows how things are similar and different (clues: Likenesses and differences are discussed; also, both, in contrast, etc. )
Concept or Definition
Description
Compare & Contrast
Enumeration or Listing
Which sentence has an example of personification in it?
The clocked hopped around the room trying to wake up the girl.
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
I've studied so hard my head might explode.
She is as fast as a cheetah.
