5th Grade Language Arts 2009
  • 1. advertising
A) come to a satisfying ending
B) good friends
C) bill boards
D) promote, publicize, and propagate
  • 2. atlas
A) people
B) highways and rivers
C) "why" something happens
D) a book of maps
  • 3. author's viewpoint
A) trusting the characters
B) promotion
C) end, finale
D) the way an author thinks about the subject of his or her writing
  • 4. cause
A) a book of maps
B) the tail of a whale
C) an ocean's bottom
D) "why" something happens
  • 5. climax
A) clouds in the sky
B) conversation, speaking, and talking
C) high point in the story
D) a lemonade stand
  • 6. conclusion
A) the start
B) bring forward, beginning
C) a highway
D) end, finale
  • 7. describe
A) a robot
B) a movie
C) a book of maps
D) explain, communicate, impart, or exemplify
  • 8. details
A) point, example, tells more abut the main idea
B) suspense
C) "why" something happens
D) places to visit
  • 9. dialogue
A) screaming
B) a rock band
C) what happens, result
D) conversation, speaking, or talking
  • 10. editorials
A) freezer bags
B) a fruit
C) periodical
D) editor's opinion found in a newspaper or magazine
  • 11. effect
A) what happens, result
B) fish
C) promote, publicize or propaganda
D) energy
  • 12. examples
A) books
B) model, provide practice
C) a type of clothing
D) universal, earth
  • 13. expository text
A) tall tales
B) nonfiction, writing based upon true facts
C) fairy tales
D) fiction, stories that are not true
  • 14. genre
A) something used for cleaning
B) generations
C) sports equipment
D) classification of writing
  • 15. global
A) narrow
B) round shape
C) universal, throughout the earth
D) type of basketball
  • 16. historical fiction
A) make-believe stories based upon true facts in history
B) stories based upon things in the future
C) legends
D) newspaper
  • 17. inference
A) to reach a reasonable conclusion
B) reference
C) periodical
D) problem solving
  • 18. introduction
A) ice cream sauce
B) conclusion
C) ending
D) bring forward, beginning
  • 19. outcome
A) effect, or ending in a story
B) complex
C) middle
D) introduction
  • 20. plot
A) an apple
B) details
C) important events that make up a story
D) main idea
  • 21. proofread
A) final copy
B) free write
C) draft
D) edit for mistakes
  • 22. revision
A) sailboat
B) make new, improve the content
C) draft
D) sloppy copy
  • 23. rising action
A) introduction
B) conclusion
C) a beach ball
D) events that add interest or suspense to the conflict
  • 24. role
A) writer
B) character or appearance
C) prop
D) bread
  • 25. root
A) harvest
B) a vegetable
C) base word
D) plant
  • 26. simile
A) make new, improve content
B) middle
C) main idea
D) comparison between something known and something unknown. Always uses either "like" or "as"
  • 27. table of contents
A) a spaceship
B) showing differences or an assortment
C) section of a nonfiction writing that shows the chronological order of the book's contents. Usually located at the beginning of the writing
D) proofread
  • 28. theme
A) character or appearance
B) breakfast
C) an underlying meaning or message of a story; a lesson the author wants you to learn from his/her writing
D) a bowl of soup
  • 29. transition
A) a notebook
B) a parachute
C) events adding interest or suspense to the conflict
D) changing from one state, stage, place or subject to another
  • 30. variety
A) the same
B) tired
C) showing differences or an assortment
D) happy
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