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ELA TEST PREP

Total questions: 49

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The time and place where a story happens.

a)

Character

b)

Theme

c)

Plot

d)

Setting

2.

The important idea or lesson repeated throughout the text.

a)

Plot

b)

Dictionary

c)

Theme

d)

Glossary

3.

To look for similiarities

a)

Contrast

b)

Central Message

c)

Cause and effect

d)

Compare

4.

To look for differences

a)

Contrast

b)

Inference

c)

Compare

d)

Main idea

5.

A person in a story

a)

setting

b)

plot

c)

central message

d)

character

6.

What does the theme of a text mean?

a)

The lesson or moral of the text.

b)

The most important idea.

c)

A summary of the text.

d)

The setting of the text.

7.

A character who struggles with an INTERNAL conflict ____.

a)

has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

b)

has problems with another character

8.

A character who struggles with an EXTERNAL conflict ____.

a)

has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

b)

has problems with another character or force in the story

9.

an unexpected twist of events

a)

theme

b)

irony

c)

flashback

d)

symbol

10.

an object that represents something unlike itself

a)

theme

b)

symbol

c)

flashback

d)

conflict

11.

hints in a story about what may happen later

a)

irony

b)

conflict

c)

theme

d)

foreshadowing

12.

a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

symbol

d)

hyperbole

13.

an implied comparison between two things or ideas

a)

hyperbole

b)

personification

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

14.

describing an inanimate object as if it is alive

a)

simile

b)

hyperbole

c)

personification

d)

onomatopoeia

15.

sound words such as "boom" "swish"

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

hyperbole

c)

personification

d)

imagery

16.

an extreme exaggeration (I told you 3,000 times to put down your phone!)

a)

hyperbole

b)

personification

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

metaphor

17.

The problem in the story is known as:

a)

theme

b)

conflict

c)

setting

d)

character

18.

Stories that are made up of imaginary characters or events:

a)

Fiction

b)

Nonfiction

19.

Stories that contain real people or events that actually happened:

a)

Fiction

b)

Nonfiction

20.

This is where a story takes place in time and location :

a)

plot

b)

character

c)

setting

d)

main idea

21.

All of the events in the story refers to:

a)

plot

b)

character

c)

setting

d)

point of view

22.

This refers to the person telling us the story:

a)

setting

b)

villain

c)

conflict

d)

narrator

23.

When an author builds excitement in a scene:

a)

suspense

b)

fairy tale

c)

repetition

d)

conflict

24.

The words the characters speak:

a)

point of view

b)

suspense

c)

dialogue

d)

theme

25.

When words, symbols, themes or other parts of the story are repeated and used more than once:

a)

point of view

b)

plot

c)

simile

d)

repetition

26.

When an author uses such descriptive words that it paints a picture in your mind:

a)

mood

b)

theme

c)

imagery

d)

setting

27.

Refers to the point of the paragraph or story:

a)

setting

b)

main idea/central idea

c)

narrator

d)

point of view

28.

What is the problem of a story?

a)

climax

b)

plot

c)

setting

d)

theme

29.

What does it mean to make a smart guess about what’s going to happen next?

a)

predict

b)

analyze

c)

clarify

d)

visualize

30.

What does it mean to study each part (pay attention to details)?

a)

analyze

b)

visualize

c)

predict

d)

clarify

31.

What does it mean to look closer at something when it is confusing?

a)

analyze

b)

predict

c)

clarify

d)

visualize

32.

What does it mean to think about what you know and use clues from the text (read between the lines)?

a)

summarize

b)

support

c)

make connections

d)

infer

33.

What does it mean retell the main ideas or most important parts of the story?

a)

make connections

b)

summarize

c)

infer

d)

support

34.
Synonym for Convey
a)
Talk
b)
Express
c)
File
d)
Divide
35.
Synonym for Contribute
a)
Add to
b)
Communicate
c)
Express
d)
Growth
36.
Synonym for Illustrate
a)
Help
b)
Show
c)
Guess
d)
Aid
37.
Synonym for Assumption
a)
Growth
b)
Proof
c)
Convey
d)
Guess
38.
Synonym for Infer
a)
Guess
b)
Conclude
c)
Talk
d)
Predict
39.
Synonym for Impact
a)
Result
b)
Crush
c)
Influence
d)
Support
40.
Clues found within a text that will help you determine the meaning of a word or phrase
a)
Inference
b)
Context Clues
c)
Main Idea
d)
Theme
41.
A conclusion a reader reaches based on known facts
a)
Theme
b)
Prediction
c)
Inference
d)
Central Idea
42.
Synonym for Development
a)
Comparison
b)
Destroy
c)
House
d)
Creation
43.
Synonym for Significant
a)
Important
b)
Final
c)
New
d)
Overloaded
44.

Cite

a)

Decide; figure out

b)

To show how to do something.

c)

To quote a passage, book, author; to refer to an example

d)

Convince

45.

Identify

a)

Find; point out; name

b)

to quote a passage, book, or author.

c)

back up with details

d)

Imagine; think aloud

46.

Discover

a)

To create; put together

b)

To watch carefully

c)

Convince

d)

Find out; explore

47.

What is perspective?

a)

The feeling experienced by the reader

b)

the author’s attitude toward a topic or subject

c)

The time and place of a story

d)

The main struggle in a story

48.

What is the theme?

a)

The underlying message or big idea of a talk, book, film or other work

b)

The art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people.

c)

Language characterized by figures of speech (e.g., metaphor, symbolism)

d)

The author’s attitude toward a topic or subject.

49.

Match the following

a)

setting

1.

time and place

b)

conflict

2.

struggle faced by the characters

c)

rising action

3.

the steady increase in tension

d)

climax

4.

the most intense point of a story. The point where the outcome of the conflict be decided

e)

resolution

5.

how the conflict is resolved