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