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WorksheetsELA Skills Review #1
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 2hrs 47mins
[[Skill: Characterization]]
Dynamic Characters...
A. do not change during the story
B. have little or no detail
C. have lots of detail
D. change during the story
[[Skill: Characterization]]
What is a static character?
A. a character that evolves throughout the story
B. a character that stays the same throughout the story
C. an evil character that battles against the protagonist
D. a character that messes with the plot of the story
[[Skill: Characterization]]
When the reader must infer from the character’s speech and actions what the character is like.
A. Indirect Characterization
B. Direct Characterization
[[Skill: Characterization]]
When the author plainly tells the reader what the character is like.
A. Indirect Characterization
B. Direct Characterization
[[Skill: Characterization]]
Daren showed up at the banquet with food stains all over his dress shirt. He sat down, put his feet on the table, and burped loudly. The other people sitting at the table looked at each other but continued eating.
What character trait does Daren demonstrate?
A. hypocritical
B. hysterical
C. unmannerly
D. sophisticated
[[Skill: Figurative Language]]
WHICH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED?
When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears...
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
[[Skill: Figurative Language]]
Which is a metaphor?
A. The sun smiled upon me.
B. He is as tall as a tree.
C. Life is a puzzle.
D. Her hair is like spun gold.
[[Skill: Figurative Language]]
WHICH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED?
Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
A. Simile
B. Personification
C. Metaphor
D. Alliteration
[[Skill: Figurative Language]]
WHICH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED?
Betty Botter bought some butter.
A. personification
B. alliteration
C. simile
D. imagery
[[Skill: Figurative Language]]
"I'm going to the gym to get gigantic muscles." This statement is an example of what type of figurative language?
A. alliteration
B. simile
C. allusion
D. idiom
[[Skill: Figurative Language]]
"I am going to quit school forever if I don't make the cheer team." This statement is an example of what type of figurative language?
A. personification
B. metaphor
C. idiom
D. hyperbole
[[Skill: Figurative Language]]
"I have a million things to do!" is an example of an extreme exaggeration used to make a point. The term used to describe this is called a _________________________ .
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. idiom
D. hyperbole
[[Skill: Story Elements]]
What is theme?
A. basically, the main idea of the passage
B. lessons learned by the character
C. what it is about
D. none of the above
[[Skill: Story Elements]]
The protagonist is the _____________________
A. Villain in the story
B. The main character in the story
[[Skill: Story Elements]]
True or False: The narrator is the person who is telling the story.
True
False
[[Skill: Story Elements]]
The antagonist is the ______________________
A. the character who is in conflict the the main character
B. the friend of the main character
[[Skill: Plot Elements]]
WHICH PLOT ELEMENT IS THIS?
"Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a girl named Cinderella. She lived with her evil step-mother and two evil step-sisters.
A. Rising Action
B. Falling Action
C. Exposition
D. Climax
[[Skill: Plot Elements]]
True or False: The "rising action" is where the problems and characters are developed through a series of actions.
True
False
[[Skill: Plot Elements]]
The problem in a story is the _________________
A. Narrative
B. Setting
C. Conflict
D. Resolution
[[Skill: Plot Elements]]
You will find the exposition at the ______________ of a story
A. Middle
B. End
C. Beginning
[[Skill: Plot Elements]]
True or False: Falling action is the solving of problems and the wrapping up of the story
True
False
[[Skill: Mood/Tone]]
How does tone differ from mood?
A. tone is the way the reader feels while the mood is how the author feels
B. the tone is established only by what the characters say and mood is how certain characters feel
C. the tone is the way the author feels and the mood is how the reader feels
D. tone and mood are basically the same thing
[[Skill: Mood/Tone]]
WHAT TONE IS THE AUTHOR CREATING IN THE PARAGRAPH?
And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these dead little brown sticks.
A. Angry
B. Upbeat
C. Depressing
D. Whimsical
[[Skill: Mood/Tone]]
Phrases like, "it will be an adventure" "your heart will jump" "new discoveries" create a tone of..
A. caution, intense
B. scary, mystery
C. exciting, thrilling
D. sad, hopeless
[[Skill: Mood/Tone]]
Words like "dark, stormy night", "wind chilled", "deadly silent" create what kind of tone?
A. exciting, thriller
B. suspenseful, tense
C. sad, hopeless
D. inspiring, motivating
[[Skill: POV]]
When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself… I had no brothers or sisters. So through boyhood, from the age of four months onward, there was just us two, my father and me. We lived in an old gypsy caravan behind a filling station.”
WHICH NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE IS THE STORY TOLD FROM?
A. Third Person
B. Second Person
C. First Person
D. None of these
[[Skill: POV]]
Stories told in the "first-person" narrative perspective use these pronouns. Select one answer.
A. you, your
B. he, she, her, they, them
C. I, me, my, mine, we, us, ours
D. None of these
[[Skill: POV]]
Stories told in the "third-person" narrative perspective use these pronouns. select one answer.
A. he, she, her, they, them
B. you, your
C. I, me, my, mine, we, us, ours
D. None of these
[[Skill: Text Evidence]]
What is the purpose of using evidence?
A. to show you read the text/story
B. to support a claim or answer
C. to show where you got it from
D. to sound smart
[[Skill: Types of Conflict]]
The church catching on fire was what type of conflict?
A. Man vs. Man
B. Man vs. Self
C. Man vs. Nature
D. Man vs. Society
[[Skill: Types of Conflict]]
Conflict that occurs between two characters
A. Man vs Self
B. Man vs Man
C. Man vs Monster
D. Man vs Nature
[[Skill: Types of Conflict]]
True or False: An example of internal conflict is when a character has a conflict with him/her self.
True
False
[[Skill: Types of Conflict]]
What is it?
A. Man vs. Man
B. Man vs. Self
C. Man vs. Nature
D. Man vs. Society
[[Skill: Punctuation]]
Which is correct?
A. 55, main st, pineville, louisiana
B. 55 Main, St. Pineville, Louisiana
C. 55 Main st., Pineville, louisiana
D. 55 Main St., Pineville, Louisiana
[[Themes]]
Which of the following could be the theme of a story?
A. You can never turn your back on your family.
B. A young girl returns to her family after moving far away.
C. Most people have at least one brother or sister.
D. “I’ll never speak to you again,” she said quietly to her mother.
You and your friend might analyze the plot and the characters of a story and come up with two different correct themes.
Read the following passage from a story:
Wind whipped at Vanessa, Mo and Jaime's faces as they trudged up the mountain. "Do you have the ice samples?" Vanessa questioned Mo again."Why don't you carry them the rest of the way?" he responded irritably. Mo was digging into his backpack to retrieve the samples when suddenly, a gust of wind snatched them out of his hands, sending them tumbling down the mountain."
If we lose those, this was all for nothing!" Vanessa cried. The wind roared angrily, churning flakes of snow that had newly begun to fall. How far had the samples gone? The three scientists stared at each other in horrified silence."
I'll go back for them," Jaime spoke up quietly.
Vanessa and Mo looked at Jaime. He was the smallest and youngest of the group, barely strong enough to carry his large backpack.
"I'll go," he said louder.
Which sentence from the passage provides the best clue that a theme of the story is "Courage can be found in the people you least expect it"?
A. 'Why don't you carry them the rest of the way?'" he responded irritably.
B. "How far had the samples gone?"
C. "The wind roared angrily, churning flakes of snow that had newly begun to fall."
D. "He was the smallest and youngest of the group, barely strong enough to carry his large backpack."
After breaking his mother's vase, Casey struggles to decide whether he should tell his mother the truth and face the consequences, or whether he should attempt to hide his mistake and blame the family dog.
A. Internal conflict
B. External conflict
A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go. As he crossed a narrow bridge, he looked down and saw his reflection in the quiet water as if in a mirror. But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own. If he had stopped to think he would have known better. But instead of thinking, he dropped his bone and sprang at the Dog in the river, only to find himself swimming for dear life to reach the shore. At last he managed to scramble out, and as he stood sadly thinking about the good bone he had lost, he realized what a foolish Dog he had been.
What is the theme?
A. Be honest in all that you do
B. Don't be greedy
C. Always share your things with others
D. Don't judge a book by its cover
Read the excerpt below and determine what the writer might do to add rising action to this story:
All around them, traffic had come to a standstill. Drivers were honking, but nobody budged.
"Can't you take another route or something?" Krista asked. "The concert starts in twenty minutes. We paid a lot for these tickets, and I don't want to miss the beginning!"
"I can't even move ten feet, Krista, much less get onto another road," said Lawrence. "Besides, this is the most direct route."
A. Describe Lawrence and Krista.
B. Show Krista and Lawrence arriving happily at the concert.
C. Have the car break down on the road.
D. Describe their conversation after the show.
What is the most likely reason the author told the story from Tito’s point of view?
A. Tito is a character who always observes what is going on even when he is not a part of it.
B. Tito is friends with Gabrielle, who was one of the first kids to wear her shirt inside out.
C. Tito is forgetful, and writing a story about forgetting is easier than writing one about remembering.
D. The fact that Tito is not aware that he started the inside out shirt trend adds humor to the story.
What point of view is the following:
Cathy leaned into her computer screen with big eyes. She couldn't believe it- she had finally gotten a 100 on her math test! She knew her parents would be proud of her.
A. First person
B. Third person limited
C. Third person omniscient
D. Third person objective
Did you hear Sam and Cody? _______ planning on going to Hawaii this summer!
A. Their
B. They're
C. There
___________ house is huge!
A. Their
B. They're
C. There
A bird fell out of ____ nest.
A. its
B. it's
_____ cold today.
A. Its
B. It's
My cousins complain when __________ bored.
A. there
B. their
C. they're
________ are 650 students in this school.
A. There
B. Their
C. They're
_______ the student sitting in the back of the room?
A. Whose
B. Who's
_______ backpack is this?
A. Whose
B. Who's
We left because there were ______ many people at the restaurant, and we could not get a seat.
A. to
B. two
C. too
The ___ in England is rainy much of the time.
A. weather
B. whether
