ELA Test Prep

What is an audience?

• The people writing or speaking.

• The people listening or reading.

• The cast of a movie.

• An animal that is sleeping.

The ____ ____ is what the passage is mostly about.

Compare is to same as _______ is to different.

Conclude means to...

• Decide

• Tell what you think will happen next.

• Answer

• Tell where the story takes place.

Tell the most important events of a story.

• Setting

• Conclusion

• Summarize

• Infer

Before writing an essay, paragraph, or story, it is important to ____ your ideas.

• Organize

• Print out

• Sleep on it

• Give a title

Finding evidence in the text means to...

• Not read the text.

• Find what the text says to prove/disprove something.

• Organize ideas.

• Decide where the story takes place.

What is a synonym for selection (passage)?

• The story.

• The ending

• The plot

• The climax

What does a dictionary entry give you?

• Directions.

• How to write an essay.

• Where to write the word.

• Information on a word.

_______ is the problem in a story.