GMAS Review ELA

Georgia Milestones
ELA Review

Hosted By: Dr. Pittman

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what is a simile?

• a direct comparison using "like" or "as"

• any comparison

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What is a hyperbole?

• a descriptive setting

• exaggeration beyond belief

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What is alliteration?

• quirky expression

• repetition of beginning consonant sounds

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What is Point of View?

• The perspective from which a story is told

• the tone of the author

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What is genre?

• Category of text

• climax in a story

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What does it mean to infer?

• state an opinion

• come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence

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What is a fact?

• false claim

• something that can be proven as true

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What is an opinion?

• The way a person thinks or feels

• Proven true

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What is a subjective summary?

• a fun fact

• Summary with main points and no opinions

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What is the central idea of a passage?

• Most important point the author is making

• conclusion paragraph

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When should an introduction be in an essay?

• An introduction should be at the beginning of an essay.
• After the first paragraph of the essay.
• In the middle of the essay body.
• In the conclusion of an essay.

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Were should a conclusion paragraph be in an essay?

• At the end of an essay.
• After the introduction paragraph.
• In the middle of an essay.
• At the beginning of an essay.

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What is a theme?

• where the story takes place

• Lesson or message of the story

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What is the central idea?

• most important point or idea

• a detail

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What is a summary?

• an overview

• imaginative retelling of every event

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What is the plot?

• mood of the passage

• Order of events that form a story

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What is characterization?

• description of setting

• how an author develops a character

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What is the setting of a story?

• narrator's tone

• When and where the story takes place

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What is figurative language?

• moral of a story

• language with symbolic or non-literal meaning

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What is the resolution of a story?

• The introduction

• Solution to the the problem or conflict

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What is personification?

• human traits for non-human things

• dictionary definition