6th Grade ELA Terms Practice Study Questions With 100% Correct Answers.

6th Grade ELA Terms Practice Study Questions With 100% Correct Answers. Expository Text - CORRECT ANSWER Informational text. Includes references or resource works, textbooks, and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas and regularly used in schools. Narrative Text - CORRECT ANSWER Literature that may be used in subjects but is often for pleasure or based on a the reader's interest. Plot - CORRECT ANSWER The sequential order of events within a narrative. Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution Setting - CORRECT ANSWER The physical location and/or time of the narrative or events of the narrative. Setting can be developed directly through description or can be inferred through context clues, word choice, and dialogue of characters. Theme - CORRECT ANSWER The view, belief, or message that is an underlying message of the narrative. It is not directly stated but is left up to the reader to determine it from what has been read. Rising action - CORRECT ANSWER A string of events that builds up from the conflict, which then moves toward the climax. Falling action - CORRECT ANSWER A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion. Resolution - CORRECT ANSWER The conclusion of the story and the completion of the action. First person point of view - CORRECT ANSWER The author takes the point of view of a character providing personal thoughts or feelings and shares what other characters do and say. This is the "I" narrator. Third person omniscient point of view - CORRECT ANSWER Author can follow all characters around and all times and knows thoughts and feelings of all characters. Third person limited point of view - CORRECT ANSWER Author follows one character around and knows all things about this character. Direct Characterization - CORRECT ANSWER A character is described by the author, the narrator, or the other characters. Indirect Characterization - CORRECT ANSWER A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech, etc. Protagonist - CORRECT ANSWER The primary or main character in a piece of literature, but may not be the hero or heroine Antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER A character or force (nature, society, a person) that may oppose the protagonist in a piece of literature. Alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER The use of language in which the consonant sounds are repeated, generally at the beginning of a word or within words. Figurative language - CORRECT ANSWER The use of words, phrases, or other language structures that change the literal meaning of the words used. Uses the literal or ordinary words and constructs them in an imaginary way to add beauty, strength, or a different context to the structure.