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ELA Terms

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What part of speech describes a noun?

a)

adjective

b)

pronoun

c)

noun

d)

verb

2.

What part of speech is a person, place, thing, or idea?

a)

pronoun

b)

noun

c)

verb

d)

adverb

3.

What part of speech is an action or state of being?

a)

verb

b)

adverb

c)

adjective

d)

noun

4.

What part of speech can take the place of a noun?

a)

adjective

b)

noun

c)

verb

d)

pronoun

5.

Which term is the turning point of a story?

a)

plot

b)

falling action

c)

resolution

d)

climax

6.

Which term is the solution to the problem in a story?

a)

climax

b)

rising action

c)

exposition

d)

resolution

7.

Which term is the events near the end of a story when the author describes how the conflict was solved?

a)

rising action

b)

climax

c)

falling action

d)

exposition

8.

Which term is the sequence of events that make up a story?

a)

resolution

b)

exposition

c)

rising action

d)

climax

9.

Which figurative language compares two unlike things using "like" or "as?"

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

hyperbole

d)

metaphor

10.

Which figurative language directly compares two unlike things?

a)

metaphor

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

alliteration

d)

simile

11.

Which figurative language gives an animal or object human qualities and characteristics?

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

simlie

c)

personification

d)

alliteration

12.

Which figurative language uses extreme exaggeration?

a)

metaphor

b)

personification

c)

simile

d)

hyperbole

13.

Which figurative language repeats the beginning sounds of words throughout a sentence or paragraph?

a)

simile

b)

hyperbole

c)

alliteration

d)

metaphor

14.

Which term tells when and where the story takes place?

a)

internal

b)

characters

c)

conflict

d)

setting

15.

Which type of conflict describes character vs. self?

a)

external

b)

internal

c)

protagonist

d)

conflict

16.

Which type of conflict is character vs. character?

a)

conflict

b)

internal

c)

antagonist

d)

external

17.

Which one is another term for the main character?

a)

setting

b)

antagonist

c)

protagonist

d)

internal

18.

Which term describes the people, animals, or imaginary creatures in a story?

a)

conflict

b)

characters

c)

external

d)

setting

19.

Which one is another word for the problem in a story?

a)

conflict

b)

external

c)

antagonist

d)

characters

20.

Which term describes the character that has a conflict and struggles against the main character ("the bad guy")?

a)

external

b)

setting

c)

antagonist

d)

internal

21.

Which term can be proven to be true; it might be found in an article or a textbook?

a)

genre

b)

historical fiction

c)

fiction

d)

fact

22.

Which type of literature has stories or characters or events that could be real/true?

a)

genre

b)

realistic fiction

c)

mood

d)

historical fiction

23.

Which term is another word for a category or type of literature?

a)

historical fiction

b)

noun

c)

fiction

d)

genre

24.

Which term is a type of literature that is NOT real; the author created the characters/setting/problem?

a)

fiction

b)

non-fiction

c)

characters

d)

fact

25.

Which term is a character who changes from the beginning of the story to the end of the story?

a)

static character

b)

dynamic character

c)

dialogue

d)

theme

26.

Which term is the voice that is telling the story?

a)

mood

b)

irony

c)

narrator

d)

dynamic character

27.

Which term is a character who stays the same throughout the entire story?

a)

narrator

b)

dynamic character

c)

mood

d)

static character

28.

Which term is the lesson learned from the story?

a)

narrator

b)

dialogue

c)

theme

d)

irony

29.

Which term is the atmosphere of the story; it creates feelings within the reader?

a)

narrator

b)

mood

c)

theme

d)

dynamic character

30.

Which term is another word for a conversation between the characters in the story?

a)

narrator

b)

irony

c)

dialogue

d)

static character