ELAR Review 2

Which is an example of a metaphor?

• She was quick like lightning.

• He was as slow as a turtle.

• She was a sloth, sleepy and lazy for 20 hours out of the day.

• He was as tall as a tree.

Which is an example of personification?

• The leaves rustled quietly in the wind.

• The cat yelled hello to me as I walked by.

• The piano music sounded beautiful that night.

• None of these.

A simile is a comparison of two different things using like or as. True or false?

• True

• False

Which one of these backs up the main idea of a text?

• Author's purpose

• Supporting details

• Title

• None of these

If you encounter an unfamiliar word in a question on a test, what should you do?

• Skip over it and try to figure it out later

• Guess at its meaning

• Use a dictionary and look it up

• Use context clues

What TWO things do you need to make an inference? (Choose two!)

• Prior knowledge

• An uneducated guess

• Details from the text

• The title of the text

What is stanza?

• The title of a poem

• A line in a poem

• A section in a poem, like a paragraph

• The footnotes in a poem

Jack dashes into the classroom breathlessly for the fourth time this week. The teacher looks at him disapprovingly. He fights for breath and then says, "Sorry, Ms. Duncan. Forgot to feed the cat. Again." Based on the passage, what can you infer about Jack?

• He has a good sense of responsibility.

• He is tired.

• He is often late and forgetful about things.

• None of these.

Jack dashes into the classroom breathlessly for the fourth time this week. The teacher looks at him disapprovingly. He fights for breath and then says, "Sorry, Ms. Duncan. Forgot to feed the cat. Again." What point of view is this passage written in?

• First person POV

• Second person POV

• Third person POV

• Fourth person POV

Which is a testing strategy for process of elimination?

• Put a dot or check next to answers that might be correct.

• Completely cross out answers that are definitely wrong.

• Underline important information in answers.

• All of these.