State Testing Review Language Arts

Which sentence is an INTERROGATIVE sentence?

• It is almost time to eat dinner.

• What city were you born in?

• Hurry! There's a car coming!

• Don't forget to make your bed before you leave for school.

Identify the preposition in the sentence below.
The kitten was hiding under the table.

• kitten

• table

• hiding

• under

Identify the conjunction in the sentence below.

I want to watch a movie, but I also want to read my book.

• watch

• but

• read

• book

Identify the underlined type of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE The wind howled through the trees and woke me up.

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The main message or overall idea expressed by the poem/book

• metaphor

• simile

• theme

• none of the above

Which types of texts will you see on the state English test?

• Literary (fiction)

• Informational (Nonfiction)

• Both literary and informational

Which sentence is an example of an EXCLAMATORY sentence?

• Please put away your clothes before you leave.

• Hurray! It's your birthday!

• We are going out to lunch on Saturday.

• What is your favorite thing to do in the summer time?

Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence below.

• saw a group

• we saw

• near the ocean

• the ocean

Identify the VERB in the sentence below.

The snake slithered across the road slowly.

• slithered

• slowly

• across

• road

Identify the correlative conjunctions in the sentence below.

We can either go to the movies, or go shopping.

• We, go

• or, go

• to, movies

• either, or