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