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