4th Grade ELA Essential Facts

What is a metaphor?

• a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.

• a comparison of two things using like or as.

• an exaggeration or overstatement

• words that can be added to prefixes

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

• A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.

• when the narrator sounds like the author.

• a sound word.

How is a story told in first person point of view?

• the narrator is in the story and uses words like I.

• the narrator is not in the story.

• the narrator sounds like the author.

• the plot is developed slowly.

How is a story told in third person point of view?

• The narrator is in the story and uses words like I.

• The narrator is just observing the character and uses words like they.

• The narrator is an extra character.

• There is no narrator.

What is personification?

• sound words

• giving human qualities to animals or things

• repetition of sounds

What is a hyperbole?

• a sound word

• giving human qualities to animals or things

• An exaggeration

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a sound word

• an exaggeration

• giving human qualities to animals or objects

What is alliteration?

• the repetition of sounds

• an exaggeration

• a sound word

• a narrator

Which of the follow is a text with plot, character, point of view, setting, and theme?

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

What is plot?

• the characters in the story

• the sequence of events that tells a story

• where the story takes place