WorksheetsELA TEST PREP
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 26mins
The time and place where a story happens.
Character
Theme
Plot
Setting
The important idea or lesson repeated throughout the text.
Plot
Dictionary
Theme
Glossary
To look for similiarities
Contrast
Central Message
Cause and effect
Compare
To look for differences
Contrast
Inference
Compare
Main idea
A person in a story
setting
plot
central message
character
What does the theme of a text mean?
The lesson or moral of the text.
The most important idea.
A summary of the text.
The setting of the text.
A character who struggles with an INTERNAL conflict ____.
has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts
has problems with another character
A character who struggles with an EXTERNAL conflict ____.
has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts
has problems with another character or force in the story
an unexpected twist of events
theme
irony
flashback
symbol
an object that represents something unlike itself
theme
symbol
flashback
conflict
hints in a story about what may happen later
irony
conflict
theme
foreshadowing
a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
metaphor
simile
symbol
hyperbole
an implied comparison between two things or ideas
hyperbole
personification
simile
metaphor
describing an inanimate object as if it is alive
simile
hyperbole
personification
onomatopoeia
sound words such as "boom" "swish"
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
personification
imagery
an extreme exaggeration (I told you 3,000 times to put down your phone!)
hyperbole
personification
onomatopoeia
metaphor
The problem in the story is known as:
theme
conflict
setting
character
Stories that are made up of imaginary characters or events:
Fiction
Nonfiction
Stories that contain real people or events that actually happened:
Fiction
Nonfiction
This is where a story takes place in time and location :
plot
character
setting
main idea
All of the events in the story refers to:
plot
character
setting
point of view
This refers to the person telling us the story:
setting
villain
conflict
narrator
When an author builds excitement in a scene:
suspense
fairy tale
repetition
conflict
The words the characters speak:
point of view
suspense
dialogue
theme
When words, symbols, themes or other parts of the story are repeated and used more than once:
point of view
plot
simile
repetition
When an author uses such descriptive words that it paints a picture in your mind:
mood
theme
imagery
setting
Refers to the point of the paragraph or story:
setting
main idea/central idea
narrator
point of view
What is the problem of a story?
climax
plot
setting
theme
What does it mean to make a smart guess about what’s going to happen next?
predict
analyze
clarify
visualize
What does it mean to study each part (pay attention to details)?
analyze
visualize
predict
clarify
What does it mean to look closer at something when it is confusing?
analyze
predict
clarify
visualize
What does it mean to think about what you know and use clues from the text (read between the lines)?
summarize
support
make connections
infer
What does it mean retell the main ideas or most important parts of the story?
make connections
summarize
infer
support
Cite
Decide; figure out
To show how to do something.
To quote a passage, book, author; to refer to an example
Convince
Identify
Find; point out; name
to quote a passage, book, or author.
back up with details
Imagine; think aloud
Discover
To create; put together
To watch carefully
Convince
Find out; explore
What is perspective?
The feeling experienced by the reader
the author’s attitude toward a topic or subject
The time and place of a story
The main struggle in a story
What is the theme?
The underlying message or big idea of a talk, book, film or other work
The art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people.
Language characterized by figures of speech (e.g., metaphor, symbolism)
The author’s attitude toward a topic or subject.
setting
time and place
conflict
struggle faced by the characters
rising action
the steady increase in tension
climax
the most intense point of a story. The point where the outcome of the conflict be decided
resolution
how the conflict is resolved
