WorksheetsELA Testing Terms
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The beginning of a story where setting, characters,
and conflict are introduced
Antagonist
Theme
Climax
Exposition
The hero or main character.
Exposition
Antagonist
Climax
Protagonist
The turning point of the story
Theme
Climax
Exposition
Protagonist
Character who acts against the protagonist
Antagonist
Climax
Exposition
Theme
Events that build towards the turning point
Setting
Theme
Rising Action
Mood
The message about life
dialogue
setting
theme
conflict
A conversation between characters
Dialogue
Protagonist
Setting
Exposition
Time and place of the story.
Rising Action
Setting
Resolution
Plot
Series of events that make up the story
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Plot
Internal Conflict
Author gives hints or clues about later events
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Internal Conflict
External Conflict
The action goes back to an earlier time
Flashback
Resolution
Exposition
Foreshadowing
A problem or struggle against an outside force.
Internal Conflict
Resolution
External Conflict
Plot
Human characteristics are given to non-human things.
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Idiom
A comparison that uses like or as
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
Idiom
A big exaggeration to emphasize something.
Hyperbole
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
A comparison that does not use like or as
Simile
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Metaphor
When consonant sounds are repeated at the
beginning of words.
Repetition
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
Words that sound the way they are spelled.
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Hyperbole
An “expression” that has a meaning different than
its literal words.
Metaphor
Simile
idiom
Alliteration
Words or phrases are repeated to emphasize an idea.
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Personification
Idiom
Which passage best represents a story’s setting?
A fire snapped all day in our cookstove and another in the stone fireplace in the livingroom, but still the farmhouse was never warm.
It was late February, and I remember the bleak, dead cold that had set in, cold that was a rare thing for our Carolina hills.
Three weeks before, Bandit, the pet fox Colin and I had raised from a tiny kit, had disappeared, and not even a rumor had been heard of him since.
Read the following passage:
Once a king and a queen had three daughters. All three were beautiful, but the youngest, Psyche, was different. She was so lovely that men called her a new Aphrodite, a young goddess of love and beauty, but no man dared to marry a goddess. So while the two older sisters found husbands and went on to live in their own homes, Psyche stayed alone with her mother and father.
This part of the plot is called the
Resolution
Rising action
Exposition
Climax
Read the following passage:
His feet had hardly touched the floor when a nerve-shattering scream filled the house and a glistening body flashed toward him through the band of moonlight. Crouching, he flung the blanket out protectingly, almost at the same instant the snarling panther was upon him.
Which words in the passage most strongly create a tone of tension?
hardly, scream, glistening, moonlight, instant
nerve-shattering, scream, glistening, flung, snarling
scream, flashed, protectingly, instant, upon
touched, nerve-shattering, body, band, panther
Which literary device is used in this sentence:
She was tall and thin with hair black as night and a sweet face that never could hide thoughts.
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Read the following passage:
As the months went by, Mr. Okada not only accepted every invitation, he began to come uninvited. He had a distasteful habit of coming in the late afternoon and staying until my mother had to prepare supper and, consequently, felt obliged to ask him to stay.
Based on the passage, the word consequently most likely means
therefore
sadly
truthfully
however
