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ELA Review

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

To infer the mood of a text, you should look at:

a)

The summary of the text.

b)

The author's choice of words and the feeling the author creates.

c)

The structure of the text or how the words are displayed.

d)

The comparison of two or more texts.

2.

Comparing the tone of two different texts requires an understanding of:

a)

The summary of each text.

b)

The themes of each text.

c)

The authors' attitudes toward their subjects.

d)

The credibility of each text.

3.

To analyze the structure of a poem, you should look at:

a)

The summary of the poem.

b)

The rhyme scheme and stanzas.

c)

The comparison to another poem.

d)

The credibility of the poem.

4.

When you determine the theme of a story, you are identifying:

a)

The main characters and their roles.

b)

The setting and time period.

c)

The underlying message, moral, or lesson of the story.

d)

The sequence of events in the plot.

5.
reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing. Example: you must be as honest as Abe Lincoln
a)
hyperbole
b)
allusion
c)
oxymoron
d)
tone
6.

the exact, literal definition of a word

a)
argument
b)
connotation
c)
denotation
d)
context clues
7.
the emotional meaning associated with a word, suggestions that come with a word beyond its dictionary definition
a)
argument
b)
connotation
c)
denotation
d)
context clues
8.

This type of character does not change or develop over the course of a story.

a)

Static character

b)

Dynamic character

c)

Flat character

d)

Round character

9.

This type of character changes or develops over the course of a story. These characters learn about themselves and are different at the end of the story.

a)

Static character

b)

Dynamic character

c)

Flat character

d)

Round character

10.

What is a protagonist?

a)

A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.

b)

The main character in a story.

c)

The main character's opponent in a story. The character who is trying to stop the main character from achieving a goal.

11.

What is an antagonist?

a)

A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.

b)

The main character in a story.

c)

The main character's opponent in a story. The character who is trying to stop the main character from achieving a goal.

12.

The repetition of initial consonant sounds. For example, she sells seashells by the seashore.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Hyperbole

13.

Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Hyperbole

14.

A word that imitates the sound it represents. For example, snap, crackle, pop

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Hyperbole

15.

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. For example, "I'm so hungry that my stomach is trying to eat itself."

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Hyperbole

16.

What is a metaphor?

a)

A comparison using "like" or "as"

b)

A comparison without using like or as; a direct comparison

c)

A common, often-used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. For example, "It's raining cats and dogs."

d)

The sequence of events in a story

17.

What is plot?

a)

A comparison using "like" or "as"

b)

A comparison without using like or as; a direct comparison

c)

A common, often-used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. For example, "It's raining cats and dogs."

d)

The sequence of events in a story

18.

What is a genre?

a)

A type of text, or a way to sort texts into groups

b)

Fiction

c)

A way of understanding difficult texts

d)

How readers approach the world

19.

Dialogue is...

a)

a memory or experience the author writes about

b)

a conversation between characters or people in a story

c)

a type of figurative language used to make your writing interesting

d)

a part of speech that describes a noun

20.

Find all the nouns.

a)

dog

b)

run

c)

small

d)

pencil

e)

school

21.

Find all the proper nouns.

a)

school

b)

Sycamore High School

c)

Ohio

d)

book

e)

Mrs. McKenna

22.

Find all the verbs.

a)

study

b)

speak

c)

friend

d)

dance

e)

nice

23.

Find all the adjectives.

a)

nice

b)

red

c)

house

d)

happy

e)

big

24.

Find all the adverbs.

a)

loudly

b)

sing

c)

quickly

d)

write

e)

beautiful

25.

Find all the prepositions.

a)

on

b)

in

c)

he

d)

play

e)

purple

26.

Which part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?

a)

adverb

b)

verb

c)

noun

d)

pronoun

27.

What part of speech describes nouns and pronouns?

a)

adjective

b)

adverb

c)

adjunct

d)

conjunction

28.

Which part of speech joins words, phrases, and clauses?

a)

verb

b)

interjection

c)

preposition

d)

conjunction

29.

What does a preposition do?

a)

shows action or being

b)

shows position or relationship

c)

modifies ad verb or an adjective

d)

takes the place of a noun

30.

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

a)

proverb

b)

adverb

c)

verb

d)

noun

31.

What part of speech takes the place of a noun?

a)

preposition

b)

proposition

c)

adjective

d)

pronoun

32.

What does an adverb do?

a)

Modifies a preposition or pronoun

b)

Modifies a verb, adjective or adverb

c)

Describes nouns and pronouns

d)

Connects words. phrases and clauses

33.

Three common conjunctions are...

a)

and, but, or

b)

dancing, swimming, running

c)

he, her, them

d)

am, is, are

34.

What part of speech are the words: under, in, over, through, from

a)

adverb

b)

preposition

c)

interjection

d)

pronoun

35.

Mary's voice is the music to my ears.

a)

A) Repetition

b)

B) Simile

c)

C) Hyperbole

d)

D) Metaphor

36.

My life is like a roller coaster.

a)

A. simile

b)

B. idiom

c)

C.hyperbole

d)

D. metaphor

37.

Peter Piper picked a pair of peppers.

a)

A) Simile

b)

B) Hyperbole

c)

C) Alliteration

d)

D) Pun

38.

I am the happiest person on earth.

a)

A.)idiom

b)

B.)pun

c)

C.)hyperbole

d)

D.)simile

39.

The flowers were dancing in the wind.

a)

A. personification

b)

B. pun

c)

C. simile

d)

D. metaphor

40.

I joyfully jumped like the joyful jelly beans.

a)

A) Personification

b)

B) Metaphor

c)

C) Onomatopoeia

d)

D)Alliteration

41.

What is a Simile?

a)

Comparing two unlike things using like or as

b)

Comparing two things NOT using like or as

c)

A saying with a little bit of wisdom

42.

He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

a)

metaphor

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

idiom

43.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


Life is too much like a pathless wood

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

44.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


Beauty calls and gives no warning

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

45.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


You are a frightened owl, Blinded by the light of life​

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification