1. Spring 2013 Language Arts Semester Review 6 th grade

2. *What is Summary?  Summary is the main idea and Important details

3. What is fiction?  Fiction is a type of literature that tells a made-up story

4. *What is drama?  Drama is a play written to be performed by actors

5. *What is an analogy?  An analogy is a comparison that shows a relationship between 2 things

6. *What is a simile?  A simile is a comparison of 2 unlike things using “like” or “as”

7. *What is an onomatopoeia?  An onomatopoeia is a word or phrase that imitates sound

8. *What is plot?  Plot is the action in the story

9. What is the resolution?  Resolution is the final outcome of the story- the solution

10. What is setting?  Setting is the time and place of the story’s events

11. What is the climax?  Climax is the point of greatest interest or suspense

12. What is conflict?  Conflict is the main problem the character faces (with others, self or nature)

13. *What is Personification?  Personification gives animals or objects human qualities

14. *What is a hyperbole?  A hyperbole is the use of exaggeration

15. *What is symbolism?  Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or represent another

16. *What is imagery?  Imagery is the use of vivid description to create a picture in the readers mind

17. *What is foreshadowing?  Foreshadowing gives clues that suggest what might happen

18. *What is an idiom?  An idiom is a saying that cannot be literally translated

19. What is an author?  An author is the person who wrote the story, passage, etc.

20. What is a narrator?  A narrator is the person telling the story

21. What is 1 st person?  1 st person is when a character tells a story (I, me, we…)

22. What is 3 rd person?  3 rd person is when someone NOT in the story, tells the story

23. What is dialogue?  Dialogue is when the character speak (usually set off with quotation marks)

24. What is a fact?  A fact is a statement that can be proven

25. What is an opinion?  An opinion is a statement that cannot be proved- some ones own belief

26. What is propaganda?  Propaganda is persuasion techniques

27. What are synonyms?  Synonyms are words that have similar meanings

28. What are antonyms?  Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings

29. What are context clues?  Context clues are the words around a word that help you understand the meaning of an unknown word

30. What is authors purpose?  Authors purpose is the reason the author chose to write- Persuasion, Information, Entertainment

31. What does it mean to inference?  Using what the text says to infer (or figure out) what is going on that is not stated

32. What is main idea?  Main idea is the general point of a section- Most important part

33. What does a complete sentence have?  A subject (who) and a verb (what)

34. What is a concluding sentence?  The last sentence that sums up the final idea of a paper

35. What words can be used to combine sentences?  Fan boys F or, a nd, n or, b ut, o r, y et, s o

36. What are the types of verb tenses?  Past, Present, & future