ELA Leap Test Review

a text structure that shows the reason something happened and what happened to it. (example: The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, causing a lot of people to lose their lives)

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Chronology

• Compare and Contrast

a text structure that looks at two events, time periods, people or almost any two things and tell how they are alike and different.

• Cause and Effect

• Chronology

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

tells what the characters say, it is "talking" in a story. It should always have quotation marks around what is being said.

• Talking

• Characters

• Figurative Language

• Dialogue

What does this piece of figurative language mean?

"She ran like a cheetah."

• The girl is a cheetah.

• When the girl ran, she looked like a cheetah.

• When the girl ran, she was fast like a cheetah.

What does this piece of figurative language mean?

"Sam froze in his steps when the principal called his name."

• Sam stopped walking.

• Sam was freezing cold.

• Sam froze like an ice cube.

a person's feelings or ideas about a subject, person, event, or any other topic. Everyone can have a different one, but they have to be able to back it up with proof and evidence. It is not a fact.

• Fact

• Opinion

• Evidence

• Theme

This type of point of view story is not told by any of the story's characters. Someone outside the story is telling it.

• First Person Point of View

• Third Person Point of View

This point of view means that one of the characters is telling the story.

• First Person Point of View

• Third Person Point of View

What is this an example of?

"The CAT took the BAT and hit his HAT."

Where is it found?

• Rhyme - Poems

• Theme - Stories

the "where" and "when" for the story—the time and place.

• Theme

• Main Idea

• Setting