ELA Terms

What part of speech describes a noun?

• adjective

• pronoun

• noun

• verb

What part of speech is a person, place, thing, or idea?

• pronoun

• noun

• verb

• adverb

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

• verb

• adverb

• adjective

• noun

What part of speech can take the place of a noun?

• adjective

• noun

• verb

• pronoun

Which term is the turning point of a story?

• plot

• falling action

• resolution

• climax

Which term is the solution to the problem in a story?

• climax

• rising action

• exposition

• resolution

Which term is the events near the end of a story when the author describes how the conflict was solved?

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• exposition

Which term is the sequence of events that make up a story?

• resolution

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

Which figurative language compares two unlike things using "like" or "as?"

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Which figurative language directly compares two unlike things?

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile