End of the Year ELA

The theme of a story or poem is the ________ of the text.

• structure or organization

• main idea

• lesson or central message

• ending

When an author lists events or steps in the order they happened, the text has a _____________ structure.

• chronological / sequence

• compare and contrast

• description

• problem and solution

Poems do not have paragraphs; instead, they have __________.

• lines

• titles

• pages

• stanzas

When a character in the story is the narrator

• 2nd person point of view

• 1st person point of view

• 3rd person point of view

• multiple narrators

A ____________ describes a character's personality.

• theme

• character trait

• appearance

• main idea

The _________ is the BIG idea of an informational text; what the text is MOSTLY about.

• main idea

• theme

• plot

• structure

When the narrator of a story/poem is OUTSIDE of the story, but mainly follows ONE character

• 1st person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 3rd person limited point of view

• 3rd person omniscient point of view

When an author explains how two things are alike and different, the text has a ___________ structure.

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

• chronological order

• compare and contrast

The narrator of a poem is called the __________.

• talker

• speaker

• author

• character

Which text feature shows the locations of specific places and geographic landmarks?

• a map

• a diagram

• a table

• a photograph