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Mrs. Barreras’s 2010 Language Arts Midterm Review for 6th grade
I. Literary Terms- Notes
-Setting
-Plot
-Exposition
-Climax
-Falling Action
-Rising Action
-Theme
-Foreshadowing
-Flashback
-Main Character
-Conflict
-Fantasy
II. Literary Devices- Notes
-Simile
-Metaphor
-Alliteration
-Hyperbole
-Onomatopoeia
-Personification
-Repetition
III. Reading Skills- FCAT Folder and Task Cards
-Main Idea
-Supporting Details
-Author’s Purpose and perspective
-Point of View: First, Second, Third Person
-Cause and Effect
-Compare and Contrast
-Fact vs. Opinion
-Context Clues
-Inference
IV. Antonyms and Synonyms
V. Grammar
Parts of Speech
-noun
-verb
- adjective
- adverb)
Sentence Structure
-subject
-predicate
- simple
-compound
-run-on sentence
-fragment
Conjunctions
4 Types of Sentences
-Declarative
-Imperative
-Interrogative
-Exclamatory
Punctuation
Possessive nouns
VI. Example test questions
Parts of Speech
1.A common noun is the name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea.
A. True B. False
Directions: Identify all the nouns for the following question.
2. The staff of Doctors at Grant Hospital are dependable.
Directions: If the boldfaced noun is common, write common. If it is a proper noun, write proper.
3. Spiders spin webs to catch insects. ______
Directions: Circle the correct pronoun for questions 4-5.
4. I see his dog and (he, him).
A B
5. How will you show (I, me)?
A B
6. Words that are used to describe people, places, and things are called ______.
A. adjectives B. verbs C. conjunctions D. pronouns
7. The words this, that, these, and those are called ______.
A. conjunctions B. verbs C. articles D. demonstrative adjectives.
Directions: Circle the conjunctions for the following question.
8.The Ferris wheel used to frighten me, but now I like it.
Sentence Structure
Sample Questions:
9. A ______is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.
A. subject B. sentence C. predicate
10. A subject is ______or ______the sentence is about.
A. where, how B. what, where C. who, what
Directions: Circle the simple subject for the following question.
11. True insects have three body parts and six legs.
A. insects B. body C. legs D. parts
12. A complex sentence is a sentence that has one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses.
A. True B. False
Directions: Circle whether the following sentences are simple, or compound.
13. How did Charlotte escape being hanged, and what did she do when she reached America?
A. simple B. compound
Directions: Circle whether the sentence is complete sentence, fragment, or a run-on.
14. Most of the Maya were farmers they came to the cities to attend festivals.
A. fragment B. run-on C. complete sentence
15. In the tropical rain forests of northern Guatemala.
A. fragment B. run-on C. complete sentence
Directions: Circle the correct answer for each question.
16. What type of sentence makes a command?
A. imperative B. interrogative C. exclamatory D. declarative
17. How did you find the car?
A. imperative B. interrogative C. exclamatory D. declarative
18. The house will be built on a hill.
A. imperative B. interrogative C. exclamatory D. declarative
Punctuation
19. Tell me the names of those cities again
A. question mark (?) B. period (.) C. exclamation mark (!)
20. What is a colon?
A. ( , ) B. (:) C. (‘) D. (;)
21. The letter was postmarked March 19 1995.
A. 19, B. letter, C. postmarked D. The,
Directions: Identify the possessive form of the words below. Circle the correct answer.
22. pig
A. pig’ B.pig’s
23. Mrs. Jacobs
A. Mrs. Jacobs’s B. Mrs. Jacobs’
Fiction
29. The main character is:
- The person who wrote the story
- The character that everybody likes
- The character whose life is the center of the story
- A person who makes everybody laugh
30. The sequence of events in a story is called:
A. The Plot B. The Climax C. The Resolution D. The Theme
31. The Climax is
A. The conclusion of a story
B. The point of greatest interest in a story; where everything has been leading up to
- The setting
- The boring part of the story
32. To clarify involves:
- Stop occasionally to review what you understand so far. Also, watch for answers to questions you had earlier.
- To make an educational guess
- Trying to figure out what will happen next
- Connect personally with what you will be reading
33. Questioning involves:
- Searching for reasons behind events and character’s feelings
- Reviewing what has been read
- Trying to figure out what will happen next in a story
- Making judgments about a character
33. An inference says something that is probably true, based on facts in the story.
A. True B. False